Myha'la Says Unconscious Racial Bias Is “Prevalent” on The Traitors

Industry actress and Them cover star Myha'la Herrold is opening up about her recent elimination in the third episode of The Celebrity Traitors season two on the BBC.In response to an Instagram commenter who said she was eliminated “because you are BLACK” and called the social deduction competition a “racist show,” Myha'la issued a lengthy response, as Deadline reported.On one hand, Myha'la — who goes by a mononym — noted that she “sealed [her] own fate” and said, “I do have to defend my dear friends on this show who in no way consciously put bias on me because of my race.”She added, however, that unconscious forms of racial bias are “prevalent” in The Traitors, noting, “I do agree that unconscious racial and cultural bias exists in this game where my authenticity or honesty or the ways in which I choose to express myself look suspicious to people who are unfamiliar with people like me.” See on Instagram All forms of The Traitors — whether they star celebrities or real people — select a small subset of contestants to serve as hidden “Traitors,” secretly selecting fellow competitors for elimination while posing by day as one of the “Faithful.” The Faithful, by contrast, are tasked with sniffing out, and voting to “banish,” the Traitors based solely on behavioral clues and verbal slips. (Myha'la was a Faithful falsely accused of being a Traitor.)Due to the game’s structure, multiple contestants across versions of the show have alleged that they’ve faced forms of unconscious bias — a psychological term for the way in which prevailing attitudes about marginalized groups can influence our behavior toward individual members — while appearing on Traitors programs.In 2024, for example, Peppermint was eliminated first in the second season of the U.S. edition of The Traitors, later telling Bravo host Andy Cohen, “I know that somebody has to be the first to go on a show like this, but with no proof, then people have to rely