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Celebrity Apprentice Feud: Dayana Mendoza Says Lisa Lampanelli's "Racial Slurs" Were "Degrading"

Beauty queen slams comic for calling her "a spic" and says her comments belittle "anyone of Hispanic descent"

By Rebecca Macatee Apr 10, 2012 9:52 PMTags
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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…

"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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