Jodie just lately addressed on an April 28 episode of The Vault with Monica & Amir podcast, the place she and her former costar stood because it had grow to be obvious over the previous few years that they’ve very completely different views on social points.
“She posted her viewpoint and I posted mine. We have at all times been very completely different on these issues,” Jodie stated.
Should you bear in mind, again in 2022, Candace confronted backlash after she claimed the Nice American Household community, the place she was chief artistic officer, would deal with tales about “conventional marriage” as an alternative of same-sex {couples}.
When JoJo Siwa spoke out in opposition to Candace’s Wall Avenue Journal interview for being “impolite and hurtful to an entire group of individuals,” Jodie commented on the submit in help, writing, “You already know I like you ❤️❤️.”
On prime of that, Jodie spoke out in help of LGBTQ+ communities after an unbiased challenge she labored on was bought to the Nice American Household community. “Typically, we, as actors, do not have management over which community buys the initiatives we’re in, nor are we part of the method through which they get bought,” she informed Folks. “I’m dissatisfied, however in line with my mission of supporting the LGBTQ+ household, any potential or future cash constructed from this sale might be donated to LGBTQ+ organizations.”
As for the TV sisters’ relationship immediately, Jodie stated, “Candace and I – we simply dwell very completely different existence. We simply exist in form of very completely different worlds, however she continues to be somebody I’ve recognized since I used to be 5 years outdated.”
Candace unfollowed Jodie on Instagram after the back-and-forth over the controversial statements concerning the Nice American Household, however Jodie is not fazed. “I am not gonna unfollow anyone,” Jodie stated. “I do not dwell my life based mostly on social media. I feel it may be used for some nice issues, and I additionally assume it may be actually damaging and filled with lots of shit, significantly nowadays.”
Elsewhere within the podcast episode, Jodie addressed a second following the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony, the place followers assumed that she was shading her former costar. Candace criticized the opening ceremony as a result of it “utterly blashphemed… the Christian religion with their interpreation of the Final Supper.”
“To be sincere, I wasn’t even talking about her,” Jodie stated on the podcast. “There was already some factor that had occurred the place we went [on] very divergent paths on one thing we stated – after which I noticed the Olympics factor and I noticed all these individuals freaking out about it, and I used to be like, ‘Oh my God, inform me you already know nothing about artwork historical past with out telling me you already know nothing,’ after which everybody was like, ‘She got here for Candace!’ And I used to be like, ‘What the?'”
Hearken to the total podcast episode right here.
