'Rehab Addict' pulled after video shows HGTV host Nicole Curtis using a racial slur

Nicole Curtis, whose home-rehab enactment successful Detroit and Minneapolis has been the backbone of “Rehab Addict” connected HGTV, is thanking radical for their enactment and apologizing aft a video surfaced successful which she utilized a radical slur.

“I could accidental more, but I shall accidental less,” she wrote Wednesday successful a caption connected an Instagram video showing her going backmost and distant connected an airport’s moving sidewalk. “Thank you for 15 years of amazing, astonishing support! Your emotion took maine from a struggling mommy moving unusual jobs successful Craigslist to a existent property mogul whose dependable (more than face) gets recognized each implicit the world.

“God Bless ... Set the DVR -stream it -just marque definite these aged houses are saved.”

In the video, you tin spot her riding successful 1 absorption arsenic the substance implicit the video states, “POV: you waiting each this clip for much Rehab Addict. Then she’s going the different mode with substance saying, “Me: I promise” followed by different absorption power and substance that reads, “Me: forgive me.”

In her Instagram Stories, she shared a substance speech with TMZ wherever she said, successful part, “Regarding HGTV, I’m grateful for the 15-year travel we’ve shared. It’s been a meaningful chapter, but my absorption isn’t connected my career. My absorption astatine this infinitesimal is rightfully connected my relationships, and my assemblage — the radical who genuinely cognize my quality and wherever my bosom is. I privation to beryllium clear: the connection successful question is incorrect and not portion of my vocabulary and ne'er has been, and I apologize to everyone.”

She followed that up with a bid of surface grabs showing messages from strangers calling her profane names, insulting her and labeling her a racist. One idiosyncratic said helium wanted her deported and “disposed of” and added, amid his all-caps profanity, “may you ne'er person a time of bid again.” Curtis told TMZ she was focused connected being a mom.

Video of the gaffe was captured 2 years ago, according to Radar Online, which posted it Wednesday.

“Why? It’s my past one,” she says successful the little clip, whining a spot arsenic she stands connected a ladder and struggles to clip immoderate wires. Then she uses the N-word.

She instantly stops what she’s doing, turns astir and says, “What the f— is that that I conscionable said? Nick, you gotta, you gotta — tin you termination that?” A idiosyncratic is seen helping her astatine crushed level. Someone tin beryllium heard laughing disconnected camera.

“No, I’ve got 35 minutes [of footage shot], I can’t ...,” her cameraman says from farther away, off-camera.

“Oh, f— my life,” Curtis says, distressed implicit what she conscionable said.

HGTV said successful a connection that the web had been “recently made alert of an violative radical remark made during the filming of Rehab Addict. Not lone is connection similar this hurtful and disappointing to our viewers, partners, and employees — it does not align with the values of HGTV.”

The web said it had removed the amusement “from each HGTV platforms.” The amusement was produced for 8 afloat seasons from 2010 to 2018 and was successful the midst of an seemingly abbreviated ninth play dispersed implicit 2 years erstwhile it was pulled. The franchise — which besides included “Rehab Addict Rescue” (2021) and “Rehab Addict Lake House Rescue” (2022) — was nary longer disposable to watercourse connected the HBO Max oregon Discovery+ platforms connected Thursday.

Curtis had posted a promo for the caller episodes of “Rehab Addict,” which hasn’t showed caller worldly since past summer.

“Straight from Detroit —the caller episodes driblet Wednesday …was told present oregon ne'er -so you get them now,” the Instagram station says. Two episodes were acceptable to air, but did not,” she wrote successful the promo caption.”And tin you bash maine a immense amusement of enactment by sharing this. Sending it to friends, tag a friend, a stranger.”

Curtis talked with The Times astir her 2016 publication “Better Than New: Lessons I’ve Learned From Saving Old Houses,” wherever she wrote, “The champion mode to get done hellhole is to support connected moving.”

“Years ago, I was having a atrocious clip and I was sitting determination successful my pajamas crying, and a person was determination and said, ‘C’mon, get up, we’re going for a walk,’” she said astatine the time. “Now I’ve got mascara moving down my face, and I’m a mess, but she said, ‘You person to support moving, now, let’s go!’ And that was truly helpful. If I wasn’t truthful physically active, I astir apt wouldn’t get retired of furniture immoderate days. You person to get fired backmost up — conscionable get up and move.”

It could beryllium clip for Curtis to get up and moving again.