Tana Mongeau Breaks Her Silence After Podcast Co-Host Brooke Schofield's Racist Tweets Resurface: 'Horrific'

Mar. 15, 2025

In the latest episode ofCancelled, posted on Aug. 11, Mongeau, 26, first wanted to make it “abundantly clear” that it was “her decision” not to have Schofield, 27, be a part of the episode.

Reps for Schofield and Mongeau did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment on Schofield’s future with the podcast.

“I’m saying that as a White person,” Mongeau said. “I cannot even imagine being a Black non-fan or fan and reading the tweets.”

Tana Mongeau (left) and Brooke Schofield (right).Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic; Todd Williamson/E! Entertainment/NBC via Getty Images

Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic; Todd Williamson/E! Entertainment/NBC via Getty Images

Mongeau confirmed that she also “condemned her” for the tweets and that she “had no right to forgive her as a White person for the things she said.”

Schofield posted an apology video onTikTokon Aug. 4, during which she addressed the tweets and said she thought they were “so disturbing” and “disgusting.” She also shared that she lived with her “very, very right-wing conservative” grandfather and “my household was literally just Fox News all the time” and that “whatever I heard, I passed on.”

Tana Mongeau.Monica Schipper/Getty Images

Monica Schipper/Getty Images

Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer​​, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.Mongeau initially supported Schofield’s apology but apologized for that response on the podcast. She “regretted” doing so and was “going to beat myself up for that forever, quite frankly," Mongeau said.

“It’s not enough to write these things off as ‘we grew up bad,’ ” she continued. “And I think that I learned that now and that shows me that I still have things to learn and unlearn.”

Mongeau then addressed her own racist tweets and posts from 2013 and 2014 that shepreviously apologized forand said she is “more than happy to apologize until the day I die."

“They were hurtful and disgusting and racist,” Mongeau continued on Aug. 11. “And I know that while I do think I’ve grown so much as a person from who I was in those tweets at that time I know that there’s always more growing for me to do and that’s why I wanted to talk about this today.”

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“I hope [Brooke] takes the time to grow and learn what she needs to,” she added. “And intake the information she needs to and speak to people of color and understand the pain that they felt while reading those tweets.”

In a follow-up video posted toTikTokon Aug. 6, Schofield confirmed she had made a donation to theTrayvon Martin Foundationand that she is “doing her research” into other communities and foundations she can help.

source: people.com