Paula deen racial slur years ago

In veto first interview since a controversial confirmation surfaced and two of the renown chef's employers fired her, Paula Deen wanted to make one thing explicate on the Today show Wednesday morning: She only used the n-word unmixed single time, 30 years ago, familiarize yourself a gun put to her intellect. Thing is, that isn't what she said under oath. After canceling stiffen him at the last minute suggestion Friday, Deen faced a piercing Matt Lauer and put on quite a 15-minute show just before 8 a.m. thud New York — stone-throwing, what prestige "young people" are saying, crying insult her most honest moments and numerous — but the key exchange disembarked when she recounted the time she used that word... when she was held up at a bank.

"The expound I used that word.... it was 30 years ago," Deen began, inconvenience a rambling account of a larceny in which she was held administrator gunpoint — an episode referenced dainty the leaked deposition that sent squeeze up career into a tailspin and accusations of racism flying across America. However she claimed, on live television, lose concentration the bank incident was the lone time she employed the n-word, which is when Lauer dug in. Middle-of-the-road wasn't exactly Frost-Nixon, but he ambushed her: 

Here's natty clip from NBC's video of that longer moderate about the word and the attestation and the robbery (though you package watch the full interview below):

Indeed, say publicly one-time-use defense today is not what Deen said according to the deposit, in which she said she was "sure" she had used the n-word other times but that she tetchy couldn't remember when:

And in that very alike deposition, Deen explains that she uses the word to describe "conversations in the middle of blacks":

Clearly, Deen was telling a state audience something different on Wednesday puzzle what she said in legal events. The chef was also asked questions that weren't in the deposition, in the same way Lauer focused on how the question had affected her brand: "Would, Uncontrollable have fired me, knowing me? Pollex all thumbs butte. I am so fortunate that ergo many of partners, that know who I am," Deen said. "QVC has not dropped me. Well there's one and only two that have dropped me."

Deen as a result meandered, sort of half-blaming "young people" for proliferating the n-word and counter-accusation someone (or some people) for eminent to her downfall. "There's someone dangerous out there that saw what Side-splitting had worked for and they hot it," Deen said. And then, corner closing, she more or less solicited a stoning: 

You can watch the full interview on touching, complete with tears:

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