![]() ![]() It built my career.’ There were people we posted, they went to Ellen and started doing book tours. There are days when I wake up and I'm like, ‘What is The Shade Room doing?’ Then I run into people randomly and they're like, ‘Hey, I was on your platform and you don't know how this helped my life. What am I doing? Why is this hard?’ And a friend of mine told me, ‘Well, you know that you have the right intentions because it's hard.’ I remember talking to another head of a media company and I said, ‘Isn't this hard?’ And they were like, ‘No, it's easy.’ I went home with that and I said, ‘Well, wait. For me, it's a daily struggle because first of all, I love the Black community…but I also feel the responsibility and the weight of it all…I'm constantly getting criticized about our reporting. ![]() There are so many stories that we could have put out. There’re so many exclusives we could have had. ![]() The Shade Room has become the premier place for Black celebrity news gettyĪsare: Do you ever feel like you have a responsibility as a Black woman to not put out certain stories? Do you ever have those moments where you're like, ‘I know that this is breaking news, but for whatever reason, we just feel like morally this isn't something that we want to put out?’ ![]()
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