Paula Deen is under the microscope…….
We have to admit it, Paulal Deen is one of our fave chefs on the food network…..but NOT anymore! We were absolutely BLOWN AWAY when she admitted that she uses the N-WORD!
Deen was deposed in connection with a pending sexual harassment lawsuit filed by a former employee who claims she was called all kinds of N_ggers to a laundry list of other racist, sexist and inappropriate comments while she worked at Paula’s Oyster House restaurant in Georgia.
While under oath, Paula was asked if she has ever used the N-word — she simply responded, “YES, OF COURSE” … and the nonchalant admission was all captured on tape.
Check out the highlights from the revealing deposition below:
Lawyer: Have you ever used the N-word yourself?
Paula: Yes, of course.
Lawyer: Okay. In what context?
Paula: Well, it was probably when a black man burst into the bank that I was working at and put a gun to my head.
Sidenote — Paula was held up at gunpoint during a bank robbery in 1986.
Lawyer: Okay. And what did you say?
Paula: Well, I don’t remember, but the gun was dancing all around my temple … I didn’t — I didn’t feel real favorable towards him.
Lawyer: Okay. Well, did you use the N-word to him as he pointed a gun in your head at your face?
Paula: Absolutely not.
Lawyer: Well, then, when did you use it?
Paula: Probably in telling my husband.
Lawyer: Okay. Have you used it since then?
Paula: I’m sure I have, but it’s been a very long time.
Lawyer: Can you remember the context in which you have used the N-word?
Paula: No.
Lawyer: Has it occurred with sufficient frequency that you cannot recall all of the various context in which you’ve used it?
Paula: No, no.
Lawyer: Well, then tell me the other context in which you’ve used the N-word?
Paula: I don’t know, maybe in repeating something that was said to me.
Lawyer: Like a joke?
Paula: No, probably a conversation between blacks. I don’t — I don’t know. But that’s just not a word that we use as time has gone on. Things have changed since the ’60s in the south. And my children and my brother object to that word being used in any cruel or mean behavior. As well as I do.
