Amanda Seales has announced that she’ll be leaving The Real after just six months on the daytime talk show.
The 38-year-old comedian revealed the news during an Instagram Live on Tuesday (June 2). “My contract is up at The Real, and I didn’t renew it,” Amanda said, adding that she didn’t feel like she could express herself properly as a black woman on the show. “It doesn’t feel good to my soul to be at a place where I can not speak to my people the way they need to be spoken to,” she added. “And where the people that are speaking to me in despairing ways are not being handled.” Amanda went on, “I’m not at a space where, as a full black woman, I can have my voice and my co-workers also have their voices, and where the people at the top are
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