Chris Cuomo laughs as he interviewed a TikTok influencer with Tourette’s syndrome, who repeatedly told Chris Cuomo to ‘f**k off’ and mimicked a British accent.
Baylen Dupree, a freshman at West Virginia University, shared her journey dealing with Tourette’s, a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by quick and repetitious tics and sounds.
During the interview aired on NewsNation Tuesday night, she repeatedly told Chris Cuomo to ‘f**k off’ and gestured by extending her middle finger to the 53-year-old news anchor.
Minutes into the conversation, Chris Cuomo smiled and laughed when Dupree, in a humous British accent, said, ‘Go f* yourself, Chris a bunny, old biscuit fat a**’.
After the tics, she resumed the conversation, saying that she also receives hate from people who have told her that her parents deserve to die in a car accident.
Dupree, a freshman in college and a social media influencer with 9 million followers on TikTok went viral after she documented her life with Tourette’s Syndrome.
Tourette’s Syndrome, which usually starts in childhood and is characterised by involuntary motor and verbal tics, is believed to affect about 1.4 million Americans, including Billie Eilish.
Vocal tics include humming or shouting out specific words, which Dupree had displayed throughout her interview with Chris Cuomo.
She said that she wants people to learn that Tourette’s is a neurological involuntary motor and vocal disorder. She said that there are a lot of things that people don’t understand and that people think that cursing is typical with everyone who has Tourette’s syndrome, but it’s only ten per cent of people with Tourette’s.
She said she gets thousands of DMs from parents, from teachers, from girls that have been diagnosed with Tourette’s and they’ve had to be kicked out of school for attention seeking because they rip up their homework or do things like that.
She added that she also gets very evil people who will come and say, and then you can see she has trouble finishing the sentence during the interview.
Chris Cuomo endeavours to hold back his laugh by concealing his face with both hands and nodding his head. The interview then continues after Dupree’s swearing tics.
She said that people have told her that her parents deserve to die in a car accident and that she’s had the police at her house because people gave out her location and said they’re gonna come and torch her house.
Tourette’s syndrome is not funny, but how can you not laugh, this girl is hilarious and those who do laugh, well many are laughing with her and not at her, but many are laughing at her and that is despicable.
It was a brilliant interview and he wasn’t laughing at her he was just having a human response. What was alarming was that they bleeped out what the girl was saying and they shouldn’t have because the interview was about her Tourette’s.
Why on earth did they do that? Was it to protect the fragile sensibilities of the viewers because it was pre-watershed?
In my opinion, it was terrible so-called journalism. The news needs to be reported accurately, especially when they’re interviewing people who live in a nation where most people believe almost everything they see on TV.
Now because they bleeped the swear words out, people will believe that Tourette’s isn’t a real thing and anyhow, this lady has had to live with her condition all her life, so why shouldn’t the public? And censoring what she was saying only protects the idiots out there who believe very stupidly that Tourette’s isn’t real.
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