“Below Deck” star Rayna Lindsey says her co-star, Heather Chase, should have been fired from the show after she repeatedly used the n-word.
Lindsey first used the slur. Chase then repeated the word and used it several times throughout the course of the evening. When Lindsey approached her the following day to call her out, Chase said she could not remember doing so.
“It’s okay, I still love you, I’m just telling you,” Lindsey told her.
She then hopped on social media to offer an apology.
“I am sorry for the hurt my ignorance caused Rayna in tonight’s episode,” Chase posted on Instagram. “While I apologized to Rayna throughout the season, I cannot express enough how truly remorseful I am.”
She continued, “Part of my responsibility as Chief Stewardess is to provide a welcoming, safe environment for the crew and I fell short. Over the past nine months since this episode was filmed, I have learned how my words and actions can affect others and I vow to do better in the future.”
Fans reacted to the apology, asking Lindsey why producers allowed Chase to continue using the offensive word.
Lindsey shared that the episode airing was “traumatic” for her. “It’s like watching a car crash over and over again,” she wrote.
“@bravotv you heard the people,” Lindsey added in a separate slide. “I’m very disappointed. They kept rewarding her all season and she thought she was gonna get away with it.”
Lindsey believes that Chase should have been fired but that others aboard are also complicit. She claimed that Captain Lee Rosbach “knew” about what happened “and just didn’t care to talk to me.”
She says she did not feel “safe and protected” by production.
“Something happens so bad that it becomes impossible to trust anyone. With time and the reunion I hope we can unpack everything,” she wrote, adding in another slide that “things kinda get worse.”
