Why Tiffany Boone waited until this week to address her exit from The Chi

Variety

Boone broke her silence on the Showtime series' Jason Mitchell harassment controversy Monday in a lengthy statement posted to Instagram. Speaking to Variety at the premiere of Amazon's Hunters, Boone discussed the timing of her statement. “You know, it’s been awhile since all of that happened, since everything came out. I work on my own time. I wanted to deal with it the way I wanted to deal with it,” Boone said. “I didn’t feel like I owed anyone anything. I was going through my own experience. Now seemed like the right time to just tell the part of the story that I wanted to tell. And I knew obviously that I was going to have to do press for (Hunters). Starting this process, I wanted to close one chapter before I started a beautiful new one. And I’m really grateful for all the support I’ve gotten from it and all the people who shared their stories with me because of it.”