Jess Hilarious Says Her ‘Anger’ Toward Loren LoRosa Was ‘Misplaced’

Jess Hilarious is reflecting on the fallout after her return from maternity leave on The Breakfast Club and her since-resolved issues with Loren LoRosa.

On the latest episode of Kandi Burruss’s Speak On It podcast, the 34-year-old comedian and radio personality revisited the period after she came back to The Breakfast Club and found her replacement, LoRosa, still on the show.

In March 2025, Jess’ confusion at the situation led her to a heated rant on Instagram Live where she called out her co-workers, Charlamagne tha God and DJ Envy.

“The only thing I would change is going online because I didn’t know enough about Loren LoRosa at the time,” Jess told Burruss near the 25-minute mark in the video linked here. “I will definitely say my anger was misplaced. I was mad at her, I couldn’t stand her for a while … I felt betrayed.”

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“I love what she do,” Jess said of LoRosa. “She’s a journalist. I’m not, I’m a comedian. I do commentary on headlines and things like that, I’m there for the comic relief. She actually is serious about her job, she comes from TMZ and all that. So I was like, ‘Yeah, I want her to sit in my spot for maternity leave.’ But when I came back, I promise nobody has said anything—and she was still there.”

Jess also confessed that despite feeling close to her co-workers, she felt like Charlamagne and Envy were trying to “push” her out of the long-running radio show and replace her with LoRosa.

“They didn’t really know what was going on either,” she said. “But I just felt like they were keeping things from me. And so I went online and I did the thing. I did the ‘Jess Hilarious’ thing, right? And then I go to work like my badge going to work the next day. I didn’t even get to try the badge cuz Charlamagne was right there at the elevator like, ‘Nah, come on. Bring your goofy ass in here.’ He gave me a hug and then he was like, ‘We going to have this conversation,’ and then we did it on air.”

Looking back, Jess admits she would express the exact same feelings but offline.

“It would be the same way. It just wouldn’t be online,” she says, explaining that instead, “It would be with them, all of them in the room,” because “it was nobody’s business.” She also admits that outside reaction made things more intense, saying that people in the comments section were “validating” her own feelings about the situation.

“I love all of them,” Jess added. “Two brothers and now a new sister.”

She also credits outside mediation from Power 105.1 hosts Angie Martinez and former Breakfast Club co-host Angela Yee, saying they supported both sides and helped guide them through the tension. Jess even credited Martinez with inspiring the idea to do a parody of Brandy and Monica’s “The Boy is Mine” called “The Job is Mine.

Jess Hilarious officially joined The Breakfast Club in February 2024 after Angela Yee’s departure. Following Jess’ maternity leave, Loren LoRosa remained on the nationally syndicated show as their Senior News Producer.