Aside from her apology, Giuliana Rancic is finally opening up for the first time about the controversial comments she made on Fashion Police regarding Zendaya Coleman and the repercussions she’s faced since.
In an interview with People, the 40-year-old host reveals that she truly didn’t believe her remarks about Coleman’s hair smelling of “patchouli oi and weed” would be taken as a racial slur. So when she read Coleman’s statement the following day, she was taken back. “I read her statement and I was shocked,” Rancic admimts. “I made [the joke] as a reference to the hippie culture. It was a bohemian-chic reference, not about race, nor would it ever be. It was horrifying to have my name in a headline with words I have never been associated with in my life.”