‘Married To Medicine’ Star Dr. Jackie “Brokenhearted” Issues Apology Following Backlash Over Comments About Pregnant Black Women

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Dr. Jackie Walters, star of Bravo‘s Married to Medicine, has issued an apology after backlash over resurfaced comments from 2020 saying Black women “cry wolf” during their pregnancy. “I’m taking a much-needed pause to address comments that I made during a 2020 live interview with one of my castmates,” Dr.

Jackie said in a video posted on her Instagram page. “First and most importantly to Black women and mothers, including your friends and the medical community who care for you because my words left you hurt and feeling unsupported.” She continued, “I want you to know I hear you, I see you, I believe you, and I apologize from the bottom of my heart.

I am brokenhearted over this. The guilt and reality that I have hurt and offended people, especially Black women and some of my own patients, pains me to my core.” Back in 2020, Dr.

Jackie appeared on a live broadcast with her Married to Medicine co-star, Dr. Heavenly, where she said Black women are not always honest with their doctors. “Sometimes as African American women, we’re a bit more dramatic and that you go to the doctor and you complain and you complain and you complain and you’re not taken seriously because you cry wolf the entire pregnancy,” Dr.