Queer Eye star Karamo Brown is opening up on why he skipped press appearances for the final season of the hit Netflix show and shares more about his rough experiences filming the reality TV series, including relapsing during the show’s third season and his mom overhearing others badmouthing him on set.
In January, Brown pulled out of appearances on CBS Mornings and Today with the rest of the Fab Five (Antoni Porowski, Jonathan Van Ness, Tan France and Jeremiah Brent), doing so at the last minute and merely releasing the following statement: “I hope everyone remembers the main theme I have tried to teach them over the past decade, which is to focus on and protect their mental health/peace from people or a world who seek to destroy it; which is why I can’t be there today.”
Additionally, Brown’s assistant told CBS Mornings and Today, respectively, that he was “worried about being bullied” and had “felt mentally and emotionally abused for years.”
Now, Brown tells People in a cover story that he and his co-stars “had always come together because of the fans, but because of the work I’d done on myself, I asked, ‘If I stay quiet right now and pretend I’m sick or something, whose peace am I protecting?’”
