After social media star Addison Rae appeared on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon last Friday, she faced intense backlash to her segment, entitled Addison Rae Teaches Jimmy Eight TikTok Dances. And now, Rae has responded to the backlash in an interview. Rae said when they caught her walking down the street in an ambush style interview. “But they all know that I love them so much and I support all of them so much and hopefully one day we can all meet up and dance together.”
Rae, who is white, performed these dances while neither she nor the show acknowledged the mostly Black choreographers who originated the dances on the social media platform. Since the backlash began, Fallon has not directly acknowledged the controversy, though the official Tonight Show channel’s YouTube video does list the handles of all of the dance originators in the video’s description.
