Holly Robinson Peete: I heard that Donald Trump used the N-word to describe me on Celebrity Apprentice

The Daily Beast

Peete competed on the third season of Celebrity Apprentice in 2009, but she says she wouldn't have done the show when Trump became known for his birther attacks on President Obama in the years after. “I found him to be kind of piggish and bullish and stuff,” she says of Trump, “but I didn't find him to be just this—who he is now, I did not see that.” It wasn’t until after she “lost” to Bret Michaels in the season finale that she says she found out how Trump was talking about her behind her back. “Shortly after the finale, rumors started going around that he had tossed out an ‘N-word’ referring to me,” she adds. “When the producer told me when it happened, during the finale, I remember the moment. I wasn’t in earshot, but I could see them deciding between me and Bret Michaels.” She recalls seeing Trump “talking with producers and they’re really animated and that was when I heard that he said, ‘They want the ‘N-word’ to win.’ Because I guess the network wanted me to win or me to be chosen and Trump wanted Bret.”