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Celebrity Apprentice Feud: Dayana Mendoza Says Lisa Lampanelli's "Racial Slurs" Were "Degrading"
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Lisa Lampanelli's gotten a lot of laughs at Dayana Mendoza's expense on Celebrity Apprentice. Last week, however, the outspoken comic made a crack that went too far, and Mendoza isn't going to let it go unnoticed.
"I would actually love to see [Dayana] giving birth. She's a spic!" Lampanelli said on Sirius XM last week. "She's going to do it f—king soon anyway. She'll be knocked up before the end of the week."
Mendoza, a former Miss Venezuela and Miss Universe, was understandably upset about Lampanelli's comments…
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"As an individual, I'm resilient and can handle Lisa making fun of me personally," Mendoza told E! News exclusively. "But as a Latina, Lisa's words aren't just offensive to me, but to millions of other individuals.
"To be generalized by stereotypes and called a 'spic' degrades and belittles anyone of Latin descent," she added.
Mendoza continued: "When she uses racial slurs, she is not only targeting myself but degrading an entire Hispanic culture."
—Reporting by Sharareh Drury
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