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Chloe Bailey says she ‘was laughing about’ backlash to THAT graphic s** scene in Swarm

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Chloe Bailey says she ‘was laughing about’ backlash to THAT graphic s** scene in Swarm

Chloe Bailey has shrugged off the online backlash she received for her raunchy s** scene on the first episode of Donald Glover’s new series, Swarm.

The singer, 24, shocked fans when her character Marissa was vividly shown making love to her boyfriend Dre, played by Damson Idris, within the first few minutes of the pilot.

Although Chloe came in for a deluge of criticism online over the scene, she blithely informed ET Canada that she was “laughing about it.”

She gushed that she is “really proud of [her] performance in that show and being on set with such incredible actors like Damson [Idris] and Dominique [Fishback] and being directed by Donald Glover and being on set with the likes of Malia Obama and Janine [Nabers] and everybody.”

Chloe continued, saying, “I learned so much being on that set.

I also learned that it’s okay to be imperfect as an actor because that’s where the realness lies.”

The singer-turned-actress argued that “we’re not supposed to play like this perfectly built human being, because that doesn’t exist in the real world.

So when I let that go, acting became an even deeper love for me.”

During the interview, she declared that she no longer feels bothered by fans failing to recognize that she is no longer a child.

After the interview went online, Chloe posted a series of sultry snaps on Instagram, showing off her toned tummy and legs in a knotted t-shirt and tiny black shorts.

Chloe was criticized for her graphic s** scene in new drama, Swarm, just one month after her collaboration with convicted abuser Chris Brown drew backlash.

The scene saw Marissa’s sister Dre watch her have s** with Khalid from the door before he sees her, winks, and continues.

Fans quickly took to social media to berate Beyonce’s protegee for “making terrible decisions” and potentially harming her career with the racy scene.

One follower wrote, “Where is a Chloe Bailey’s mentor pls???

She’s been making terrible decisions lately; she should have never done that s** scene in Swarm, and I’m not even gonna go into her most recent collab with Chris Brown.”

Another wrote, “I get it; it’s acting, but it’s unnecessary acting.

Beyonce is her mentor and has NEVER done a scene like this.

The scene wasn’t even relevant.

These new movies and shows are genuinely doing too much for no good reason.”

One fan penned, “Swarm is insane & that random s** scene with Chloe Bailey was so pointless”.

Another referencing Halle Berry’s s** scene in Oscar-winner Monster’s Ball wrote, “Chloe Bailey pulled a Halle Berry for Swarm with zero f**ks given I ain’t even mad at her!”

However, others came out in defense of Chloe, writing, “Why are some people acting like Chloe Bailey aka someone who literally has Beyoncé as a mentor would now be suffering in her career for doing a 10-second s** scene in a prestige drama made by an Emmy winner?”

Another wrote, “The series Swarm there’s a s** scene with Chloe Bailey in it and they’ve been slut-shaming her because of it.”

Swarm is comedian/rapper Donald Glover’s first-ever TV series with Amazon Studios, and it’s centered around Dre, played by Dominique Fishback, a young woman whose obsession with her favorite singer turns deadly.

Glover is not only the series creator, but he’s also credited as an executive producer and directed Swarm’s premiere episode.

The seven-part horror series premiered its entire first season on Friday.

The Bad Guy singer portrays a cult leader named Eva, that manipulates her followers into dangerous behaviors through hypnosis.

This comes after Bailey came under fire for her choice to record a song titled How Does It Feel, with Chris Brown.

The outrage came immediately upon announcing the track as the second single off her upcoming debut album, In Pieces.

After teasing the track with Brown by sharing a photo of them sharing an intimate embrace on Thursday, fans of the singer, 24, unleashed their fury on social media as they begged her not to drop the track.

Many argued that collaborating with the Ayo hitmaker, 33, was a massive misstep in her career due to his long history of extreme violence against women, including his then-girlfriend Rihanna back in 2009.

In addition to giving his former partner a busted lip and painful black eye during a fight when she was 21, he most recently was accused of raping and drugging a woman aboard a yacht in 2020, which he has vehemently denied.

Some reflected on “what exactly are all these female artists from Ciara, to Kelly Rowland, Normani, and now Chloe Bailey trying to prove in propping up or working with Chris Brown.”

Award-Winning journalist, Ernest Owens, wrote: “We’re failing Black women in music if they feel like they have to collaborate with a known abuser to chart.”

The consensus on social media is that it is “disgusting” that people are “giving this abusive p.o.s attention.”

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