Jodie recently addressed on an April 28 episode of The Vault with Monica & Amir podcast, where she and her former costar stood since it had become apparent over the last few years that they have very different views on social issues.
“She posted her viewpoint and I posted mine. We’ve always been very different on those things,” Jodie said.
If you remember, back in 2022, Candace faced backlash after she claimed the Great American Family network, where she was chief creative officer, would focus on stories about “traditional marriage” instead of same-sex couples.
When JoJo Siwa spoke out against Candace’s Wall Street Journal interview for being “rude and hurtful to a whole community of people,” Jodie commented on the post in support, writing, “You know I love you ❤️❤️.”
On top of that, Jodie spoke out in support of LGBTQ+ communities after an independent project she worked on was sold to the Great American Family network. “Sometimes, we, as actors, don’t have control over which network buys the projects we are in, nor are we a part of the process in which they get sold,” she told People. “I am disappointed, but in keeping with my mission of supporting the LGBTQ+ family, any potential or future money made from this sale will be donated to LGBTQ+ organizations.”
As for the TV sisters’ relationship today, Jodie said, “Candace and I – we just live very different lifestyles. We just exist in sort of very different worlds, but she is still someone I have known since I was 5 years old.”
Candace unfollowed Jodie on Instagram after the back-and-forth over the controversial statements about the Great American Family, but Jodie isn’t fazed. “I’m not gonna unfollow anybody,” Jodie said. “I don’t live my life based on social media. I think it can be used for some great things, and I also think it can be really negative and full of a lot of shit, particularly these days.”
Elsewhere in the podcast episode, Jodie addressed a moment following the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony, where fans assumed that she was shading her former costar. Candace criticized the opening ceremony because it “completely blashphemed… the Christian faith with their interpreation of the Last Supper.”
“To be honest, I wasn’t even speaking about her,” Jodie said on the podcast. “There was already some thing that had happened where we went [on] very divergent paths on something we said – and then I saw the Olympics thing and I saw all these people freaking out about it, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, tell me you know nothing about art history without telling me you know nothing,’ and then everyone was like, ‘She came for Candace!’ And I was like, ‘What the?'”
Listen to the full podcast episode here.