Family Guy's Alex Borstein - who voices the show's Lois Griffin - has been accused of racism by a former colleague.
Lois Griffin in Family Guy / Credit: FOX
Aries Spears - who worked with Borstein on MADtv - was on The Breakfast Club mid-August, talking about the pitfalls of making it in the industry and specifically detailing an incident he said happened with Borstein and Debra Wilson in the makeup room whilst waiting to shoot a skit for the show.
Describing Borstein as "one of the most racist 'c words'" he's ever been around, he accused her of being blatantly racist.
He explained: "One day we were sitting around waiting to shoot. Alex starts looking at her fingernails - she keeps rubbing her fingernails. Debra used to date Pat Kilbane, the white boy on the show. So she goes, 'Oh my God, Pat, I've got all this black dirt under my fingernails like I was raped by an 'n word' and I've got the evidence to prove it.'"
Spears says he and Debra then complained to the MADtv producers about the incident, but claims that he and Debra were accused of being 'troublemakers for being insulted that somebody said that'.
"How do you blame the victim?" he concluded, before saying: "That's the kind of thing Hollywood is. It's so political, it's so racial. You've gotta watch where you step, watch what you say, 'cause all of it is crazy."
You can check out Spears' Breakfast Club interview in full below:
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