Stacey Dash, best known for her roles as Dionne in Clueless and as the rare conservative in Hollywood, is walking away from her past support for former President Donald Trump.
In an interview with the Daily Mail published on Wednesday, Dash explained that the events of Jan. 6 contributed to her change of mind.
“I think the Capitol Riots were appalling,” she said. “When that happened, I was like, ‘Ok, I’m done. I’m truly done.’ Because senseless violence of any kind I denounce. What happened on Jan. 6 was just appalling and stupid.”
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In 2016, Dash began supporting Trump and became a donor to the pro-Trump Great America PAC. She also wrote in defense of the then-candidate as people began arguing that he was inciting violence at his political rallies.
“There’s a lot of talk about Donald Trump being violent, condoning it, or at least inciting it,” she wrote in a March 2016 blog post. “But this is a total misread of our next President. First of all, he’s not responsible for what every random guy does — out of thousands.”
In the same interview, Dash expressed regret over her work for Fox News, where she had worked as a contributor since 2014 before the arrangement ended in 2016.
“I’ve lived my life being angry, which is what I was on Fox News. I was the angry, conservative, black woman. And at that time in my life, it was who I was,” she said, adding, “I’m not a victim of anyone. Working for Fox at the time, that was my job. I did my job from the place I was at. Stacey now would never work at Fox, would never work for a news network or be a news contributor.”
Besides saying that being a Trump supporter put her “in some kind of box that I don’t belong in,” Dash made a point of insisting that she is “not a feminist” and still opposes abortion. Dash plays Mildred Jefferson, a physician who was once president of the National Right to Life Committee, in the new film Roe v. Wade about the precedential Supreme Court case.
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Like Dash, a number of Trump’s allies abandoned him after the Capitol riots. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who had worked closely with Trump during his administration, said Trump was “morally responsible” for the riot. McConnell’s wife, former Trump administration Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao, resigned the day after the riot. Former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, and former Trump chief of staff Mick Mulvaney also criticized the former president over the Capitol riot.
