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When the going gets tough, some people \u2014 think former \u201cRehab Addict\u201d coach Nicole Curtis \u2014 just keep digging.<\/p>\n
Sometimes, um, fart digging?<\/p>\n
\u201cFart digger\u201d is what Curtis told \u201cThe Breakfast Club<\/a>\u201d she was trying to say in a two-year-old video that surfaced of her using the N-word and immediately asking her cameraman to kill the footage. Or maybe it was \u201cfart knocker.\u201d She said those are both phrases she uses in her work and she got them tangled up while the camera was running. <\/p>\n Mind you, Curtis wrote on Instagram after <\/i>the show that \u201cEveryone advised against this, to be honest. \ud83d\udcafno one thought this was a good idea for me.\u201d And based on how her time on \u201cThe Breakfast Club\u201d went, everyone was not wrong. <\/p>\n Curtis\u2019 show and its two spinoffs were removed \u201cfrom all HGTV platforms,\u201d<\/a> the network said, after that video came to light a month ago. \u201cRehab Addict\u201d was produced for eight full seasons from 2010 to 2018 and was in the midst of an apparently shortened ninth season spread over two years when it was pulled. At the time, Curtis apologized to fans on social media and thanked them for their support. <\/p>\n Cutting back to Tuesday on the radio, DJ Envy asked her, \u201cWhat\u2019s up with you and farts?\u201d as Curtis mentioned using \u201cfart digger\u201d and \u201cfart knocker\u201d as HGTV-palatable cuss words. <\/p>\n \u201cDo you have boys in here? … Boys talk about farts all the time,\u201d Curtis said. \u201cOK, so, again, I can\u2019t swear on my show. OK, so yes, I have made up these crazy words.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cIf you said \u2018fart digger\u2019 the amount of times that you said, I just feel like you should have released that a million and one times,\u201d DJ Envy said, \u201cbecause it just seems like it\u2019s something that you\u2019ve said before because it just came out so nice.\u201d <\/p>\n Then he and Charlamagne tha God<\/a> started poking at Curtis verbally, saying that \u201cfart digger\u201d made it sound like she was playing around all day with a certain body part that, like opinions, everybody has. \u201cThat\u2019s a little nasty,\u201d one of them said. <\/p>\n Curtis seemed to tense up amid the smooth onslaught. <\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t have a rhyme or reason for the words I make up,\u201d she said. \u201cLike, I say nonsense stuff all the time. … I\u2019ll edit my shows and I\u2019ll be like, \u2018F\u2014, just finish what the f\u2014 you\u2019re saying,\u2019 \u2018cause I got off on this and that and I\u2019m off the cuff. I\u2019m not scripted.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSo were you trying to say something else in that moment?\u201d Charlamagne asked. <\/p>\n \u201cAbsolutely!\u201d Curtis replied.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2018Cause you say \u2018fart digger\u2019 and \u2018fart knocker\u2019 together?\u201d Jess Hilarious<\/a> said. \u201cWhat I can say is, I understand you …\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cNo you don\u2019t,\u201d Charlamagne said, cutting her off. <\/p>\n \u201cLet me finish,\u201d Jess said before using the N-word herself, which set off light laughter and a burst of cross-talk around the table. <\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m just in the middle here, again, see,\u201d Curtis said to nobody in particular, pressing her palms together above her head. <\/p>\n Jess said she understood why Curtis said she apologized to her kids first, \u201cbecause some of them are in school … and they may have Black friends and for them to see their friend\u2019s mom use the term … they could be bullied for that. They could have to pay that price.\u201d <\/p>\n Curtis, who is a mother of two sons, ages 28 and 10, said she apologized to them because, well, they \u201clive in Detroit. … I don\u2019t even know, can I say I am in the \u2018hood?\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cSo your best friends are Black and you live in the \u2018hood. I want you to live your truth,\u201d Charlamagne said as Curtis insisted, \u201cI live in Detroit. I\u2019m a Detroiter.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cSo, I\u2019m trying to figure this out,\u201d Charlamagne continued. \u201cHold on. What are you \u2014 what are you trying to prove here when you keep saying you\u2019re from Detroit and you\u2019re around rappers and your best friends are Black and \u2014 what are you saying?\u201d<\/p>\n Loren LoRosa chimed in, telling self-proclaimed historic preservation expert Curtis, \u201cI think it\u2019s a learning moment for you because we don\u2019t have the privilege to not understand what we\u2019re saying, why we\u2019re saying it. So, even in this moment, you may not mean anything by saying, \u2018I live in Detroit.\u2019 But even if you didn\u2019t get caught saying the N-word on this video, it still would come off as very privileged<\/a> and very unbalanced because it\u2019s different for us and that\u2019s what we\u2019re trying to have a conversation here.\u201d<\/p>\n Then Charlamagne asked Curtis if she thought privilege makes people think they can \u201csay anything.\u201d Curtis said yes and started talking about \u201cthe R-word,\u201d which prompted Charlamagne to ask, \u201cWhat is this R-word you keep referring to?\u201d<\/p>\n Amid the chatter, Jess Hilarious finally spoke the R-word out loud, so the conversation could move ahead. <\/p>\n \u201cLike saying \u2018fart n\u2014,\u2019\u201d Charlamagne said, \u201cand then coming to a Black radio show and trying to explain yourself about it. That …\u201d <\/p>\n \u201d… is r\u2014,\u201d DJ Envy said, finishing the thought. <\/p>\n \u201cYou know what?\u201d Curtis said. \u201cYou know what? You\u2019re right. You\u2019re right. You\u2019re right. I came here \u2014 I came here to have a open conversation and I didn\u2019t have to.\u201d<\/p>\n Things didn\u2019t end there. Charlamagne kept poking, Curtis kept talking and a couple of heads simply exploded, the \u201cRehab Addict\u201d host\u2019s among them.<\/p>\n