Kim Kardashian's former unpaid intern spoke out on Wednesday after the reality star set off a social media firestorm with her brusque comments about women's work ethic.Celene Zavala, a programming director at CNN+ who worked as an unpaid intern assistant to Kardashian, retweeted Kardashian's advice for women to 'get your f***ing a** up and work,' which appeared in an interview with Variety.'I worked my little college a** off for free for Kimberly,' she wrote in response to the 41-year-old billionaire.
Speaking up: Celene Zavala, a former unpaid intern to Kim Kardashian, called out the 41-year-old billionaire Wednesday on Twitter over her controversial comments that women should 'get your f***ing a** up and work' Work ethic: 'I worked my little college a** off for free for Kimberly,' she wrote in response to Kim's comments to Variety, in which she also claimed that 'nobody wants to work these days'Zavala added, 'So I better get some addendum in her saying "except Celene, she was amazing."The journalist, who didn't get back to DailyMail.com's request for comment, also retweeted a post from writer and critic Jessica DeFino, who tweeted about how she could barely fill her car with gas to get to work while working on the Kardashians app in 2015, before she was 'reprimanded for freelancing on the side' to make ends meet.
She reposted the same tweet to her Instagram stories and captioned it IYKYK [if you know, you know] in solidarity.Zavala, who previously wrote for DailyMail.com, wrote on LinkedIn that she worked as an 'Intern Assistant to Kim Kardashian West' for five months, from August to December of 2015.
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