'I’d estimate there were more than a dozen exchanges back and forth between my producer and her people and the details of them both broke my heart and opened my eyes.'
'But Roxane Gay’s requirements were different,' she went on. The article - that was accompanied by a podcast and published on Mamamia but has since been removed - was written by the website's founder Mia Freedman and was titled: 'Why, for the first time, I have no photo from my interview with Roxane Gay'.įreedman went on to explain that 'when you’re interviewing an international guest or someone very famous, there are always logistics to be organised'. 'Whatever, Just what the f*** ever,' she wrote in another tweet. 'Can she fit into the lift?' Shame on you she continued in another tweet. I can walk a f***ing mile,' the college professor who is author of several books including the best-seller Bad Feminist, said. Roxane, who weighed 261 kilos at her heaviest, hit back on Twitter, labelling the article 'cruel and humiliating'.