Stacey Dash Apologizes For Divisive Statements When She Was Political Pundit

Stacey Dash says she’s sorry for the divisive comments she made during her time as a political pundit.

The 52-year-old actress issued the apology during an exclusive interview with DailyMailTV, insisting she regrets the role she played while working at Fox News. The conservative network hired Dash as an analyst/commentator in 2014, but fired her nearly three years later following a string of controversial statements.

In 2015, she claimed then-president Barack Obama didn’t “give a shit” about terrorism. She also called for the elimination of Black History Month, BET, and the NAACP Image Awards; made transphobic comments during an Entertainment Tonight interview; and defended former president Donald Trump’s “very fine people” remarks in response to the deadly Charlottesville rally.

“I’ve lived my life being angry, which is what I was on Fox News,” she told DailyMailTV. “I was the angry, conservative, Black woman. And at that time in my life it was who I was,’ she said. I realized in 2016 that anger is unsustainable and it will destroy you. I made a lot of mistakes because of that anger.”