Jonathan Van Ness reacts to ‘monster’ allegations on ‘Queer Eye’ set: ‘I could have been better’

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the accusations that they were “abusive” on the set of “Queer Eye.”In March, a Rolling Stone exposé claimed that Van Ness, 37, is “very difficult” to work with on the hit Netflix series.

Sources close to the show used the words “monster,” “nightmare” and “demeaning” to describe the grooming expert. Van Ness (who uses they/them pronouns) finally addressed the accusations on Thursday’s episode of the “Table Manners” podcast.“There was this article that was written about ‘Queer Eye’ and myself in March, but our whole ‘Queer Eye’ family had first learned about this article in December,” they recalled.Van Ness noted they were dealing with business troubles with their hair care brand, JVN Hair, at the time.“I went from this bankruptcy to like, ‘Oh, there’s someone who’s gonna write an investigative takedown, expose piece about you that isn’t really based in reality but can certainly have a lot of things taken out of context to make you look as bad as possible.

So that could drop any day now,” the reality star said. “So from January to March, I was walking on eggshells being like, ‘When is this going to happen?’ And then it finally did happen.”The article, which was supported by three sources close to the show, claimed that fame had gotten to Van Ness’ head. “[There’s] a real emotion of fear around them when they get angry,” the insiders told Rolling Stone. “It’s almost like a cartoon where it oozes out of them.

It’s intense and scary.” They claimed there “was absolutely tension” between Van Ness and the other members of the Fab Five: Antoni Porowski, Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown and Tan France.