During the 30-minute episode, Olivia Jade detailed that she wanted to offer insight into what she and her family were thinking when the scandal happened and how her parent’s prison sentences affected her.

“It’s been hard, I think, for anybody,” Olivia Jade admitted. “No matter what the situation is, you don’t want to see your parents go to prison. But I think it’s necessary for us to move on and move forward.”

She also added that she fully accepted responsibility for the family’s actions and acknowledged her privilege.

“I’m not trying to victimize myself. I don’t want pity. I don’t deserve pity. We messed up. I just want a second chance to be like I recognize I messed up. And for so long, I wasn’t able to talk about this because of the legalities behind it. I never got to say I’m really sorry that this happened, or I really own that this was a big mess-up on everybody’s part. But I think everybody feels that way in my family right now,” the former Sephora spokesperson explained.

Banfield-Norris was unmoved by the young woman’s words. The outspoken matriarch told Olivia Jade her reasons for not wanting to give her a platform to share her story.

“I think for me, it’s like, there is so much violent dehumanization that the Black community has to go through on a daily basis. Right,” Banfield-Norris said. “There is so much devastation particularly this year, 2020, with the pandemic and everything being brought to the table, just how there’s so much inequality and inequity that when you come to the table with something like this, it’s like, ‘Child, please!’”

“I’m exhausted with everything that we have to deal with as a community, and I just don’t have the energy to put into the fact you lost your endorsements, or you’re not in school right now,” she continued.

“At the end of the day, you’re going to be okay. Your parents are going to go in, and they’re going to do their 60 days, and they’re going to pay their fine. And you guys will go on, and you’ll be okay, and you will live your life,” she continued. “There are so many of us where that just isn’t going to be our situation. It makes it difficult right now for me to care.”

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