Jonathan Van Ness has issued a response.
Three months after a Rolling Stone exposé alleged a myriad of tensions on the set of Queer Eye, including that Jonathan has “rage issues” and can be emotionally “abusive” on set, the 37-year-old has broken their silence.
“Our whole Queer Eye family had like first learned about this article in like December,” Jonathan revealed on the June 27 episode of the Table Manners podcast. “’There’s someone who’s gonna write an investigative takedown about you that isn’t really based in reality, but can certainly have a lot of things taken out of context to make you look as bad as possible. So that could drop any day now. Just so you know.’”
The hair stylist recounted feeling like they were “walking on eggshells” in the time between learning of the article and its March publish date.
“I think a lot of people were like looking for a reason to hate me or like looking for a reason to be like, ‘See, I always knew that they were a fake c–t and this is the proof,’” Jonathan said, adding, “My family was so supportive of my husband and my team, but I didn’t even get on social media, like look at my phone for three weeks.”