Raven-Symoné is willing to clarify her previous remarks about not being African-American. The actress said her comments were misunderstood.

this Cosby 38-year-old alum featured in new podcast episode on Tuesday raven and miranda Provide some little-known facts about her comments.

In the episode, titled “We Need to Talk…,” the actress addressed a controversial comment that appeared on Oprah Winfrey’s show in 2014, when she “felt like the whole internet exploded , threw my name in the trash can.”

this This is the crow The star clarified the decision to revisit the topic of people being “obsessed with race” that Idris Elba previously mentioned on “Real Time with Bill Maher.”

Shortly thereafter, the TV host quoted her own conversation with the seventy-year-old Winfrey.

The Disney Channel star turned her back to the camera and admitted the issue dates back a decade and “has been bothering me since 2014.”

“He was commenting on something I said to Oprah in 2014,” she commented, just before the controversial interview was cut from Tuesday’s show.

“So you don’t want to be labeled gay?” Winfrey asked at the time.

Raven Simeone shook his head and replied seriously: “I don’t want to be labeled gay.”

She continued: “I want to be labeled as a lover of humanity. I’m tired of being labeled – I’m American, I’m not African American. I’m American.”

“Oh girl, don’t mess with Twitter,” the media mogul replied, seemingly taken aback by her guest’s reaction.

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“Now when the show airs, I feel like the entire internet explodes and my name is thrown in the trash. There’s so much backlash from my community and others that the slash is misinterpreted and not heard. Exactly what was said,” Raven-Symoné explained.

“My exact words were, ‘I’m an American, not an African American.’”

according to cheetah girls actress, “A lot of people thought I said I wasn’t black. And I never said that.”

“When I say that being African American doesn’t align with me — that label — it doesn’t mean that I’m denying my Black identity or that I’m not Black,” Raven-Symoné said. “It means I’m from this country. I was born here. My mom, my dad, my great-great-great-that’s what I call it. Pure logistics.”