Normani Addresses Camilla Cabello’s Old Racist Posts: ‘It Was Devastating’
In her Rolling Stone cover story, singer and dancer Normani addressed fellow Fifth Harmony alum Camilla Cabello’s old racist posts, for which Cabello recently apologized after they resurfaced.
Normani’s time with Fifth Harmony was fraught. As she told Rolling Stone, being the only black member of the group made her feel like “the other one in the room.” She was deemed “the dancer” and sidelined in favor of other members of the group, particularly Cabello, until the latter’s departure in late 2016—after which she emerged as the group’s new ringleader, Rolling Stone notes.
Last winter, a Twitter user resurfaced old Tumblr posts of Cabello’s, in which the singer used racist language and slurs. (The posts had circulated before, but this time was the first they were apparently authenticated.) Cabello apologized in December, calling her younger self “uneducated and ignorant.”