The Brooke Schofield 'Racist Tweets' Drama, Explained (2024)

Brooke Schofield‘s podcast co-host Tana Mongeau has shared her thoughts on Brooke’s recent ‘racist tweets’ scandal. Old Tweets posted by Schofield between 2012 and 2015 were recently resurfaced by gossip site PopCrave, causing the the popular TikToker to share a lengthy apology and attempted explanation. In particular, Schofield expressed some opinions on the death of Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old African American boy who was fatally shot while at a convenience store.

Now, her Cancelled podcast co-host has weighed in during the latest episode of their usually-shared podcast. “She obviously will not be on this episode so she can take the time to heal and grow and think and speak to people, and just all those things,” Mongeau shared on TikTok. “These next coming episodes [of Cancelled], there’s a very big chance they will be different from what you’ve been used to on the Cancelled podcast, but like I said earlier, this also means there’s room for positive change and growth,” she added, leading fans to question whether Brooke would return at all.

During the new podcast ep, Mongeau formally “condemned” Brooke’s “f—ed up” and “horrific” Tweets. “I cannot even imagine being a black non-fan or fan and reading those Tweets,” she said. “I’ve made it very clear to Brooke as well that I condemn her for these Tweets as well. They’re f–ing horrible.”

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Tana also addressed her initial response supporting Brooke after the Tweets came to light. “When Brooke made her first apology video I commented ‘we grew up bad, I love you’, and immediately regretted it so hard. I’m going to beat myself up for that forever, quite frankly.”

“It’s not my place as a white person to forgive her,” Tana added. She also found Brooke’s apology comments about her upbringing were “not enough”.

However, things get a spicier from here, after Mongeau acknowledged her own history of racist Tweets. “My hands are not clean on this. You know the Tweets that I Tweeted in 2013, 2014, and the Vines I’m in,” saying she continues to apologise for these and make no excuse for them. Her advice to Schofield? “I’m hoping Brooke is taking the time right now to reflect and grow and learn in a lot of the ways that I did,” Tana added. “I told Brooke this the other day, I said, ‘You have to make peace with the fact that there will be people that never forgive you and this may recirculate for the rest of your life, and you have to be open and honest and talk about it.”

Wondering where it all began? Below, the full drama explained.

What Were Brooke Schofield’s Racist Tweets?

In August 2024, PopCrave resurfaced old Tweets from TikTok personality Brooke Schofield and her mother, Fawn.

In the string of Tweets, Brooke argued that the killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin wasn’t racist and was twisted by the media. “Quit acting like Zimmerman shot n killed a CHILD. The kid was 17 years old,” Brooke tweeted in Zimmerman’s defence. “Guarantee if Zimmerman shot a white guy, this wouldn’t even be a story,” said another Tweet alongside the all caps allegation: ‘News flash this wasn’t a crime of racism it was self defence.”

Trayvon Martin, who was not armed or violent, was visting family in a gated community and was shopping at the local convenience store when he was shot by a neighbourhood watchman, George Zimmermann. Zimmermann was later acquitted of murder and manslaughter after pleading self defence. Trayvon’s killing was widely criticised by civil rights leaders, and triggered nationwide protests. It also contributed significantly to the Black Lives Matter movement.

Schofield also Tweeted things like “I had nappier hair this morning than most African Americans on this end of our country” and “I said so many accidentally racist things last night I don’t know how I even made it back to America”.

Brooke Schofield’s Racist Tweets Apology

Brooke Schofield took to TikTok to deliver a three-minute apology to her followers.

“First of all, I want to acknowledge that I feel the same way about them that you do. I think they’re so disturbing, they’re wrong, they’re horrible and they’re disgusting,” she said.

“Of course, I do appreciate the people who are coming to bat for me and like, saying, like, you know, ‘it was so long ago’, and like, ‘she’s grown’ and stuff, but like, it doesn’t, honestly, it doesn’t f*cking matter, like it literally does not matter. They are horrible.”

Schofield particularly addressed the Tweets about Trayvon Martin, saying she didn’t want sympathy but wanted to explain some context. To this end, Schofield said she was raised by conservative grandparents and held some racist beliefs as a result.

“My parents were addicts, so I was adopted by my grandparents, and I was like 10, and I grew up with them from that point on. And as is true for a lot of grandparents, they’re a little bit less progressive than a lot of us are,” Schofield said.

“[My grandpa] is a very, very right wing conservative man. It was like my household was literally just Fox news all the time. Rush Limbaugh, like, if you guys know who that is, he played literally all day long, through the house, and that was just like the only thing ever that I had been exposed to.

“But if you guys have also seen my mom’s Twitter, because she was responding back and forth about the Trayvon Martin situation, and I just should have known better. I know her, and I should have known that she’s not somebody that I take any sort of political insight from at all.”

Brooke said it took her a long time to “shift [her] way of thinking”.

“There are people in my life who I might have looked up to forever, who I do not agree with. And it’s amazing now that people are, like, learning earlier on about politics and, like, forming their own opinions outside of, like, what their parents think or what they’re hearing or whatever it is. But I that just wasn’t the case for me. Whatever I heard, I passed on. I’m sorry, very, very sorry to anybody who is hurt by the tweets, because obviously they’re very hurtful,” she added.

“Obviously, I know there are some people who are just, like, not going to care for me anymore. Like, I understand that I just, I need you to know that like is not how I think, that is not what I believe. I am 27 years old now, I’ve had so much time to learn and grow and like formulate my own opinions, and they are nothing like they were when I was 17-18, years old.”

Watch the full clip below.

Schofield continues to post apologies and commentary on the sage, and confirmed she has donated to the Trayvon Martin foundation, and agrees that reparations are important.

This is not the first time Schofield has found herself making headlines of late. Brooke recently made worldwide news for alleging her ex boyfriend Clinton Kane faked being Australian.

With Mongeau’s response now live, and the Cancelled podcast still airing, this is unlikely the last we’ve seen of the saga.