Iyanla Vanzant Says She’s Taking a Break From TV After Receiving Death Threats For Years

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“I’m very sensitive to energy. Because you go into people’s homes [On her show Iyanla, Fix My Life], you’re in their bathroom, you’re in their kitchen, and then they think they know you and they think they have a right to say certain things because we’re not clear and conscious of the energy we send out,” she said. “So through the emails, through the social media, people would come into my home. I was getting death threats because they didn’t like something I said about it. And I’m like, I want to be free of this. I don’t want this. I got death threats around certain shows, around certain issues, around things that I said.”

She continued: “People would come to my home, you know because with the internet, they can find you anywhere. They would call me, ‘I know you don’t know me, but I need help.’ Wait a minute, hold up! I have so many vehicles and avenues where I serve people. I’m on social media. I have classes, I teach. You don’t get to call me on my private phone at two o’clock in the morning. So I just wanted to be free of that. That was more important to me.”