Actress Dropped From 'The Color Purple' After Anti-LGBTQ Post Surfaces

The actress set to take the lead in a production of The Color Purple has been dropped after old comments in which she took an anti-LGBTQ stance resurfaced.

Hamilton actor Aaron Lee Lambert blasted Seyi Omooba on Twitter last week, sharing a Facebook post she wrote in 2014.

“I do not believe you can be born gay, and i do not believe homosexuality is right, though the law of this land has made it legal doesn’t mean its right,” she wrote.

Lambert tweeted the full post at her, asking if she still stands by what she wrote over four years ago.

“Do you still stand by this post?” he asked. “Or are you happy to remain a hypocrite? Seeing as you’ve now been announced to be playing an LGBTQ character, I think you owe your LGBTQ peers an explanation.”

The role Omooba was set to play, Celie, has a notable emotional and sexual relationship with another woman in the story.

The actress doesn’t appear to have responded, though she’s remained active on Twitter, favoriting tweets.

However, the theaters producing the show have now confirmed she will be recast:

“The comments made by Seyi in that post have caused significant and widely expressed concerns both on social media and in the wider press. Following careful reflection it has been decide that Seyi will no longer be involved with the production.”