POMPANO BEACH, Fla. ā A Pompano Beach woman, who identifies herself as an independent recording artist, has issued an apology for a racist rant that was caught on cell phone video at a nail salon.
It all starts over a nail technician not being able to finish the job of doing Corina Monicaās acrylic nails.
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Monica starts by saying:
āYou took my nails off, what am I supposed to do now?ā
One of the employees tells her she can have her nails done by another professional.
Monica fires back. "Oh, that's real professional."
The video was posted on Twitter account Fifty Shades of Whey
(WARNING: THE VIDEO BELOW CONTAINS LANGUAGE THAT MAY OFFEND SOME VIEWERS)
Singer in Florida who goes by Corina Monica tells an American-born nail tech to "go back to your f*cking country" pic.twitter.com/e5JQp7VWJw
— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) August 7, 2020
She then asks the woman, "Where you from?"
Monica doesnāt know she is being recorded when she says: āWhy do you come to this country, work here, and donāt do whatās right for our citizens? You make money, you live in my country and youāre going to tell me you canāt do my nails b***tch?ā
After some more ranting and lots of f bombs, she says:
"Go back to your f-in country."
The nail salon employee says to Monica, āIām not even going to say anything to that.ā
Monica retorts: āB****. Iām smarter than yāall. As a matter of fact, b****, Iām an independent artist, recording artist, and Iām going to āf***ing blow the f**** up.ā
She tells them someday they are going to want her to come and get her nails done at the salon.
āCheck me out, Corina Monica, Stay Flossy.ā āStay Flossyā is the title of one of her songs.
Her exit line is, āI hope you f***ing lose this place and you go the f*** back to your country.ā
On Friday, she issued an apology on Instagram:
Monica identifies herself as an independent artist, songwriter and entertainer from Pompano Beach on reverbnation.com who was born in Romania and moved to Florida at the age of 9. She says growing up in South Florida had a major influence on her style.
On Thursday, Monica posted on Twitter she was officially moving to Tampa. The nail salon where the incident happened is located in Tampa.