Amber Rose, the model and actress who was arguably the most unconventional speaker at the Republican National Convention, explained who prompted her to come out as a fan of Donald Trump.
Rose sat down for a recording of a conservative commentator Candace Owens’ YouTube Showwhich will be fully released on Friday.
In excerpts obtained by DailyMail.com, Rose said it was her ex-husband, rapper Wiz Khalifa, who pushed her to publicly express her support for Trump.
She did so on social media in May, captioning a photo of the model with the former president and first lady, all in formal attire, with “Trump 2024.”
“My ex-husband told me that, Wiz,” Rose told Owens.
Amber Rose (right), the model and actress who was arguably the most unconventional speaker at the Republican National Convention, explained this to Candace Owens (left), who pushed her to come out as a Trump supporter
Amber Rose publicly spoke out in support of Trump in May with an Instagram post — something her ex-husband Wiz Khalifa encouraged her to do.
Owens had asked Rose, whose other famous ex is disgraced rapper Kanye West, what prompted her to support MAGA. He said it had become an “internet moment.”
The clip stops before Rose reveals more details, going beyond just naming Khalifa as her inspiration.
She did admit that she was convinced her campaign would be canceled if she embraced Trump.
“When I stood on a ledge and posted a picture of me, Trump and Melania, that was the moment I was like, ‘I’m done, I’m done,’” she recalled.
Rose also said she wasn’t sure how she would be treated at first glance on her way to the convention in Milwaukee. She looked around and saw “a lot of white men in suits.”
“So I can understand how a person of color or someone who is left-leaning would feel intimidated by that. Maybe that’s not the norm that we’re used to,” Rose said.
Wiz Khalifa (left) and Amber Rose (right) at a music industry event in 2017. The couple are now divorced, but Rose revealed that the Black and Yellow rapper encouraged her to publicly express her support for the MAGA movement
Rose explained that one of Trump’s speechwriters helped her write her speech and that she didn’t think it would resonate with the audience. “It absolutely changed my life,” she noted of the aftermath, as convention attendees flocked to her for photos.
Overall, she was very impressed with the experience.
She said one of Trump’s speechwriters helped her write her speech.
“I wrote my speech with one of the writers who works for Trump,” she explained. “I told them everything I wanted to talk about. I didn’t want to talk about the border, I didn’t want to talk about any of that stuff. I just wanted to keep it like my mom, I wanted to talk about the economy, inflation, stuff like that.”
“My story — how I got to this side,” she continued. “And they wrote something about it and I put it in my own words, and that’s what everyone at the RNC saw.”
During her speech, the model explained that her father had become a Trump supporter, someone she considered racist, but her father denied this.
“To prove my father wrong, I did research and looked into everything about Donald Trump,” she said onstage.
“I realized Donald Trump and his supporters don’t care if you’re black, white, gay, straight, it’s all love,” Rose said. “And then it hit me, these are my people, this is where I belong,” she added to cheers.
“I realized Donald Trump and his supporters don’t care if you’re black, white, gay, straight, it’s all love,” Rose said. “And then it hit me, these are my people, this is where I belong,” she said during her speech at the Republican National Convention last week
Amber Rose sits in the audience at the Republican National Convention for two nights after giving a speech on stage – which earned her newfound fame on the American right when she said she posed for ‘3,000 pictures in four days’
She told Owens she didn’t expect the speech to resonate.
“There were so many speakers, no one in the political world knew me… And honestly, the whole day before I spoke, there were a few young girls who were fans of mine and wanted pictures, but no one else really knew who I was,” Rose said.
“And right after that speech, boy, I took 3,000 pictures in four days,” she said. “I promise you it was from morning to night. Downstairs at the hotel, outside the RNC, walking to the RNC … it absolutely changed my life.”
The rapper was still processing her newfound fame on the right.
“I’m just a girl from Philly,” she told Owens.