Update 05/27/2020: Gabrielle Union has now opened up about her firing from America's Got Talent and the circumstances which led to her formal complaints about the show's allegedly toxic environment to NBC.
In a new interview with Variety, the actress and activist elaborated on a number of issues including Jay Leno's tasteless joke, which was perceived as insulting to Asian people, a noticeable disparity in the way the hair and makeup department treated certain contestants, her hairstyles being deemed "too black," and Simon Cowell's smoking on set which Union said made her ill. "I couldn't escape.
I ended up staying sick for two months straight. It was a cold that lingered and turned into bronchitis because I couldn't shake it.