Whitney Cummings has revealed she was bullied after she critiqued a podcast guest’s hair, but said: “Negative comments don’t bother me.”
During an episode of the Off The Vine with Kaitlyn Bristowe Podcast, the comedian opened up about her childhood and “living in an alcoholic” home. She explained that as her life involved lying about her parent’s alcoholism to friends and family, she has become an incredibly honest person. Cummings said she is “addicted to a lack of secrets,” which oftentimes can come across as her being abrupt and extremely direct.
These personality traits didn’t go down well with people when influencer Brooke Schofield appeared on an episode of Cummings’ podcast Good for You, titled: “Brooke Schofield & Whitney Cummings Really Want To Get Cancelled.” During the episode, Cummings told Schofield she was “literally flawless,” but her hair “on the left looks bonkers… it’s just a little fly away.”
During Cummings’ appearance on Bristowe’s show, she explained how that moment had people up in arms online.
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“I can’t stand it when people lie to me, so I’m sure it comes off kind of, like, abrupt or whatever and I actually got in trouble. I did a podcast, Brooke Schofield was on, she’s on Tana Mongeau’s podcast,” Cummings told Bristowe.
“She was fixing her hair and fixing her hair and there was, like, a hair, like, down her face and I was like, ‘Oh you have a hair’—I thought she’d want to know and then [people were] like ‘Whitney’s being a bully,’ like, I’d want someone to tell me, you know?”
When Bristowe shared her shock and said the comedian was “just trying to help,” Cummings agreed, but explained she understood why some people might have had an issue.
She continued: “Negative comments don’t bother me, I know that they’re all like a, you know, confluence of like who I actually am or what I actually present with the other person and their day and whatever.
“So it’s, [if] people need to come and like, you know, judge people to get through their day, I just go, like, ‘I’m so grateful that I don’t have to do that.’ Godspeed, I can cope with that. But, I want people to tell me if there’s egg on my face. My biggest nightmare is that everyone knows something I don’t know.”
Bristowe quipped: “I don’t want to look stupid.”
Cummings agreed with her sentiment, as she added: “I think that’s it, I don’t want anyone to ever look stupid so I’m always the person who’s like, ‘Hey I just heard this, hey just so you know this,’ you know? And I think it comes off as being, like, you know, honest.”
Cummings isn’t shy when it comes to talking about her difficult upbringing. During the podcast episode, she said she experienced a lot of neglect and further explained how her childhood has made her who she is today
“I think any of the positive attributes that I have or characteristics I had come from a negative thing, you know, I kind of call it, like, trauma privilege,” she said.
“People are like, ‘Why are you so honest?’ I’m like, ‘Well, I grew up in an alcoholic home and everyone lied all the time.’ … you’re just in a constant state of, like, yelling the truth out because everyone’s lying and you’re so confused as a kid and you get so sick of lies.
“So there’s like a Tourette’s about it; and when you grow up around alcoholics, drug addicts—again, for alcoholism to be present alcohol doesn’t have to be present. So it can be gamblers or eating addictions. My mom also had like a workaholism that was like decorating and painting, like, just anything to get out of her own feelings.”
