'Summer House's Mya Allen on That 'Heavy' House Meeting and the Arrival of 'Chaotic' Austen Kroll (Exclusive)

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Mya Allen signed herself up for , she had no plans to deliver one of the most powerful reality TV moments in recent years. Even when it happened, the Bravo newbie had no idea it would hit the audience like it did.«I was terrified.

I was for sure, this is going to be the moment that I'm essentially canceled before I even made it,» Mya confesses to ET over video chat, reflecting on the house meeting she and Ciara Miller called in order to discuss with their housemates the realities of navigating this space — the Hamptons  (maybe subconsciously) a reality TV show — dominated by white people.«I thought that there was going to be a lot of, 'She's pulling the race card...' or, 'She's an angry Black [woman]...' again, fighting all of the stereotypes that I'm already fighting on a daily basis,» Mya continues. «I was worried that's how it was going to reflect, and that's how it'd be seen.

And people have been so receptive. I don't enter conversations like that to be aggressive or to fight with people. It's really all about awareness and knowledge and the fact that's received and that people can say, 'Hey, I actually learned something...' or, 'I saw myself in that conversation,' 'I feel like I have a better understanding of the experience of a person of color in America, or in predominantly white spaces...' That's cool.»«I didn't plan on being the voice for my people, but in some way I am, and that's a lot,» she adds. «It's heavy, but it's also really cool.»The conversation came out of an emotional breaking point for the culinary entrepreneur, who kept running up against microaggressions from her co-stars.