GUNS BLAZZING
Lately most celebrities have been complaining about McG’a podcast. Lerato Sengadi, the widow of Motswako legend HPP, real name Jabulani Tsambo, is the latest celebrity to complain about McG Podcast & Chill podcast. Sengadi is the latest celebrity to call out celebrity postdcast host MacG.
HE MADE INSENSITIVE COMMENTS
This is after he allegedly made a vile and insensitive comment about mental health when he made a comment about Azania’s daughter, Shomiso. Shomiso had shared her journey about her mental illness on the reality show Born Into Fame. Sengadi, who has been vocal about her mental issues, did not take it kindly to MacG. Speaking to ZiMoja, Sengadi says MacG was vile and cruel during the broadcast of his show. Sengadi, a Public Relations specialist and marketing professional, also spoke about her mental problems after she lost HHP when she starred in the 10-part series of Widows Unveiled, on Showmax Original early this year.
HE SHOULD BE RESPONSIBLE WITH HIS PLATFORM
Sengadi said throughout her journey as a young widow, she observed that black widows had a tough time dealing with what she called "a generational curse and pattern". In the subject of the podcast making a mockery of young people, she had some advice for the producers and the hosts. "The podcast shouldn’t be censored, the hosts need to be responsible when discussing certain topics. This isn’t entertainment gossip. "It’s a serious medical illness that is eating away at the black population… especially young people who are the demographic for his podcast. "I wasn’t calling him (MacG) out, I was speaking out about the carelessness in which he addressed a very serious subject. In my view he should be dispelling myths and helping in breaking the stigma. Not gaslighting sufferers.
"Mental health is not just depression; manifests in so many ways: suicide, addiction, body crashing… inevitably death."
PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE BULLIED
Sengadi does not mince her words. She wants people who suffer from any mental illnesses to allow themselves to be bullied by the Podcast hosts. She boldy says: Speak up: you are ridiculed. Suffer in silence: you die. This stigma must be broken." She is also not apologetic by telling people they should not be ashamed of themselves even if they fall sick from any ailments. Sengadi says: "If someone had breast cancer no one would even dare blame them for being sick. They wouldn’t say: it’s just a lump, get over it… stop being soft. It’s only for white people… If people with other diseases can be treated with empathy and understanding… why not people with mental illness
"I want to be clear, I don’t listen to that podcast but by degrees of separation it ends up on my timeline somehow. And what I know for sure is that it (the podcast) thrives on salacious content and click baiting. I would rather pick up every speck of a spilled bottle of glitter than subject myself to audio/visual poison." Sengadi also posted on her social media pages about the problems she has with MacG, and saying one of his followers told him to kill herself. "The only thing is me calling out MacG about his careless and vile comments around mental health. Then one of his followers telling me to kill myself. "Which is exactly why there is such a high rate of suicide and addiction among Black people."
