Da Brat and his wife Jesseca “Judy” Dupart are responding to the backlash over sperm donor comments
Judy says the pair were bombarded with comments, including “I just hope you guys miscarry,” after the rapper said one of the few black donors available to them looked like Jiminy Cricket.
There Brat and wife Jesseca “Judy” Dupart didn’t anticipate that finding a sperm donor would be so hard … or with the backlash that their search would face after the rapper’s casual comment about the process on the couple’s reality TV show brought with it.
Will be released on The Tamron Hall Show On Thursday, the two, who are expecting their first child together, opened up about why the whole process was so difficult that they were unable to get a black donor like they originally hoped.
While the 49-year-old rapper carries the child, her wife’s eggs were used. According to the couple, Judy discovered she was a carrier of four different genetic disorders, which resulted in the donor pool being reduced from thousands to just a handful of black men. On “Brat Loves Judy,” Da Brat didn’t seem too keen on the remaining options — saying, “If you look like Jiminy Cricket, the one or two black guys I’ve seen, then that thing ain’t necessarily going to look like mine.” Child.”
This comment sparked some serious internet uproar, and Hall wondered why the two decided to keep him on the show at all instead of cutting him out.
“I didn’t think it would be offensive to anyone. I’ve joked about almost everyone I’ve seen, this one just happened to make the show. I wasn’t trying to be mean or say anything negative about black people,” Da Brat said. “We were looking for a black donor. We’re black, we wanted a black donor. So it just got misconstrued and assumed.” Away out of context.”
“I guess they thought it was funny and I didn’t think anyone would mind or I would have taken it out. I had no idea people would be so offended, but I didn’t mean it at all,” she continued. “People take things and run with them. People who know me know I meant no harm. So if I offended anyone, I apologise. But it was a joke between me, my wife and the doctor, so we play around with jokes like this, so it shouldn’t be offensive in any way.
But Judy told a number of people online did take it very seriously and left hateful comments on both of their social media pages after the episode aired.
“I’m on social media more than she is and there were things I really wanted her to avoid seeing. They had comments saying, ‘I just hope you guys miscarry,'” she shared, adding that she desperately tried to delete comments as soon as they came in to protect them from her wife.
“So I’m trying to delete a lot of stuff so she can’t see it on my page, and she can’t see it on her page because it was extreme hate,” said Judy, who spoke out against some of the backlash on Instagram , calling her wife’s comment “distasteful” while repeating how difficult it is for her to find a black donor.
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“I’m kind of used to some of that, you know, from social media, but when it comes to our kid, something we’ve worked really, really hard for – I’ve been in the hospital – something we’ve been working on. “It’s really, really hard,” she added, before addressing her IG response. “I felt like, oh my god, last but not least, I think this should at least be an educational moment so our people aren’t so ignorant and other women aren’t in this situation.”
Elsewhere in her interview with Hall, Judy also explained why the couple always wanted their donor to be “someone anonymous.”
“We didn’t want someone to come back and say, ‘I’m your dad’ or anything,” she said, comparing the initial process to “online shopping.”
The two announced the baby news back in February, with Da Brat saying the time when she thought she might have kids is “not in my sights.”
“I felt like because I didn’t get pregnant sooner, it just wasn’t going to happen to me,” she continued, saying that everything changed when she met Harris-Dupart. “I thought I’d like a little me with you.”
