A TikTok user who calls herself a “Trad Wife” has been fired after casually uttering the N-word in a cooking video.
Lily Gaddis filmed herself using racist slurs in her kitchen, and also referred to her as a “stupid whore,” an “immigrant fresh off the boat looking for a green card,” and a “money-digger.”
The video received millions of views before TikTok suspended her account.
Following the backlash, Gaddis posted a non-apology apology video on Monday, acknowledging that the video “seems to have upset certain members of the community.”
“After all the backlash, I did some deep soul searching and still hadn’t found what I wanted to do,” Gaddis proudly told X.
Before her videos became popular on social media, Gaddis worked as a marketing and sales manager for Roffee of the Carolinas, a Wilmington-based in-home health care company for seniors and people with disabilities.
Carolina’s Roffe did not mention Gaddis by name, but The statement emphasized It was reported on Tuesday that the “newly hired” employee had been fired for “inflammatory comments on social media that were not in line with our company’s values and beliefs.”
“Oh no, I’m fired! #mob,” Gaddis tweeted that night.
In the video at the center of the drama, Gaddis is cooking in her kitchen and expressing her frustration at “certain men” for thinking all women are just after her money.
“You’re listening to all those stupid hookers and immigrants who just got off the boat looking for green cards. Sure, they may be in it for the money, but they’re the exception and I’m the rule,” she continued nonchalantly.
“Everyone I know who is married is married to a man who has no money. [n-word]they don’t care. We don’t care about the money.”
She previously gained notoriety on the Chinese-owned platform for her rants about how nerds from high school – “the ones we didn’t hang out with” – have grown up to be famous actors, tech billionaires and scientists, and are now ruining the world by making laws for “normal people” like her.
Following the incident, Gaddis doubled down on his racist comments, sparking a flood of comments from users in disbelief.
In response to one commenter asking him to repeat himself, Gaddis wrote, “I heard you.”
Gaddis has since posted a series of tweets celebrating the attention his video is getting, including one in which he again used the derogatory term.
“Thank you to the black community for helping me launch my new career in conservative media!,” she wrote to X. “You all played your roles well like puppets.”
Gaddis did not immediately respond to The Washington Post’s request for comment.
