Fitness guru Jillian Michaels has spoken candidly about her escape from California.
“You see it when you see a bad situation. It’s a really bad situation,” Michaels said in an interview with Fox News Digital.
Michaels made headlines earlier this summer when he said on “The Sage Steele Show” that California was “getting too crazy for me.”
“I grew up here. I’m a woman, a gay woman. My mother is Jewish, my father is Arab. I have black children. Believe it or not, my son is half Latino, even though he doesn’t look it,” Michaels said in June. “I’m a million cards in your poker game of victimhood. And when I leave California, you might lose your mind. Maybe! Like when you made me run away from home, it might go too far.”
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Fitness guru Jillian Michaels has been making headlines for comments she made on “The Sage Steele Show” about her escape from California. (Screenshot/Club Random Media)
“It makes me so angry because I’m a Californian. I was born here, I’m a water person. I love the ocean. I grew up on the ocean,” Michaels told Fox News Digital. “So when I see my state being screwed up, it makes me so angry.”
Leaving California was never something Michaels wanted to do: A decade ago, her business partners urged her to leave, citing high taxes in the state and telling her “you’re crazy” if she stayed. She was undeterred.
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But the progressive policies that have taken hold in California have forced her to act.
“People want to say, ‘Oh, she’s far-right,’ on what basis?” Michaels cried. “If you think I’m far-right because I want to put a cop killer in jail, if you think I’m far-right because I don’t want a 24-year-old man to touch my 14-year-old son… then PG&E is [Pacific Gas & Electric Company] If you’re holding me responsible for the fire that burned my house down, then I guess I’m pretty right! You got me!”
“Keeping it Real” host Jillian Michaels mocked critics who slam her as “far-right” for opposing left-wing policies in California. (Provided by Club Random Studios)
Michaels, who now lives in Miami, cited California’s years of drought as an example of how he believes politicians owe a debt to “big agriculture” — the corporate overlords who run the almond farms that consume the state’s scarce water.
She also pointed to California’s seemingly never-ending homelessness crisis.
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Michaels called California’s homelessness problem a “catastrophe.” (Toby Canham for Fox News Digital)
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“People are not getting the help they need! This is awful!” Michaels said. “Where has the support gone for the most vulnerable in our community? ‘Oh, go out on the street and trust in God… all these horrible things are going to happen to you and you have no concerns.’ And they’re usually either addicts and need care or they have mental illness and need care. This is just chaos.”
Michaels’ Podcast “Staying true to reality” It was recently featured by Bill Maher’s media company, Club Random Studios.
