Karamo Brown Says His Son Received Death Threats After Sean Spicer Comments
Queer Eye and Dancing With the Stars star Karamo Brown has said that after he made friendly comments about DWTS costar Sean Spicer, he and his children, sons Jason and Chris, received death threats.
Karamo spoke about the incidents on the latest podcast episode of NAKED With Catt Sadler.
“We were in Philadelphia at the time and one of my sons was with me as we were shooting season five,” he recalled. “He was running home because somebody was in a car chasing after him in the car screaming at him, ‘F you and your dad! You’re going to die!’ My son at that point had no idea what was going on because he wasn’t keeping up; the last thing he wants to do is read about me.”
“So, he was confused as to why someone was chasing him in their car, and screaming things at him,” Karamo continued, adding that “it was like a seven-minute run” for his son. “That’s what I don’t like. That’s the part that really makes me emotional and gets me upset. Where I have to squeeze my hands, because the Daddy protective in me is just like, ‘Don’t do that.'”
The star later deactivated his Twitter account as a result.
“The hate started coming at me. And normally I can handle the hate, because I’m OK with having constructive conversations, but what I realized is that places like Twitter, you can’t have constructive conversations,” he explained. “It’s the mob mentality. And so once the mob feels like they have their target, they’re going to get you.”
Recently, in a cover story with The Advocate, Karamo also spoke about how when his son Jason came out as pansexual, he initially was reluctant to accept it. But he eventually turned around because, well, he’s Karamo. And he’s amazing!
Read more about that at The Advocate.