Lena Waithe regrets how Jason Mitchell's alleged The Chi misconduct was handled: "I trusted someone else to do my job"

Chicago Tribune

Waithe said this morning on Power 105's The Breakfast Club that after Mitchell's on-set behavior led to an HR investigation in Season 1, she thought everything was handled. "There (were) conversations that were had," she said. "HR was made aware and all the parties involved were like, ‘This thing has been resolved enough that both parties were willing to return to the show. So I was like, ‘OK, if you want to come back, I want to make sure that the environment is different," she said, adding that there was extensive sexual harassment training in advance of Season 2. Waithe said she heard things were running "smoothly" in Season 2. “I’m hearing that the set is completely different … and then I get a call from (Season 2 showrunner) Ayanna (Floyd) saying that things are persisting, not a lot has changed in that area, but you can’t reach out, you’ve gotta sit tight, HR has to handle it. And my biggest regret is that I should have just said, ‘Forget that,’ and not trusted anybody to do my job and just reached out to Tiffany on my own, like, ‘Yo, what’s going on? What can I do? What can Lena do?’ And instead, I trusted someone else to do my job.”