Gwen Stefani discovered an surprising supporter in Kyle Richards on Wednesday (Jan. 11) within the wake of her controversial statements about being Japanese.
Someday prior, Stefani made headlines by defending her long-documented love of Harajuku tradition in a profile for Attract. “My God, I’m Japanese and I didn’t comprehend it,” she stated within the piece. (For the document, the Anaheim, Calif., native is of Italian and Irish descent.)
The feedback have attracted all types of reactions — from ire and confusion to accusations of appropriation — from followers on social media, however the Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills OG didn’t appear to see what the large downside was. “Everybody can’t wait to be offended by one thing,” she commented an Instagram put up by E! Information about Stefani’s quote from the interview.
To this point, Stefani herself has stayed mum amid the net backlash; the pop star’s most up-to-date Instagram put up, shared sooner or later earlier than the interview went dwell, featured her selling her GXVE cosmetics line. (In line with Attract, she turned down a request to make clear or add further context to her statements previous to publication.)
Absolutely, Stefani’s controversial assertion isn’t the one music-related story Richards has her thoughts on lately both. Simply earlier than New Yr’s, her well-known niece Paris Hilton dropped a brand new model of the socialite’s cult traditional 2006 single “Stars Are Blind.” The DJ and heiress, whose mother Kathy Hilton has appeared on the final two seasons of RHOBH with Richards as a good friend of the Housewives, additionally gave a shock efficiency of the observe alongside Miley Cyrus and Sia throughout NBC’s Miley’s New Yr’s Eve Social gathering on Dec. 31.