Speaking to Newsweek Tuesday, TNA Knockout Maria Kanellis noted the irony of Donald Trump’s six-year-old criticism of her on Celebrity Apprentice coming back to haunt him.
“It was very interesting,” says Kanellis. “He fired me for making a comment that he considered ‘locker room talk,’ but what he said was much, much worse.
“I don’t believe what he said was ‘locker room talk.’ What he said was speaking about an assault on a woman, because he was a celebrity…it’s incredibly disrespectful.”
“He must have a very low opinion of the females that he’s worked with—maybe not females in general, but to say something like that about a married woman, it’s disrespectful, rude and uncouth,” says Kanellis, referencing Trump’s remarks to Billy Bush about former Access Hollywood host Nancy O’Dell. “At least, of the women he’s made these comments about, he must have a low opinion of them.”
“I have a mole on my shoulder and he told me I should get it removed because it’s an imperfection,” Kanellis recalls. (A spokesperson for Donald Trump could not immediately be reached for comment.)
Kanellis says she didn’t take the remark to heart because “I’m a confident woman,” but said Donald Trump’s jibe “had nothing to do with the work we were doing.”
Nick was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of 18, when he decided to pack his flack jacket and move to New York City.
