NewsNation host Chris Cuomo struggled to keep it together during a segment on his show this week where he interviewed a social media influencer who has Tourette’s syndrome.
During his show on Tuesday, Cuomo interviewed 20-year-old Baylen Dupree, who has amassed an audience of 9 million followers on TikTok, which she uses to educate people about the neurological disorder.
“I’m not going to censor her. Yeah, she’s going to say some things that you would not want to say yourself, let alone have said to you, which is probably going to be my position,” he said. “But as I told Baylen just moments ago, she’s not going to say anything to me that my whole team hasn’t wanted to say since the day that they met me. But I love the bravery and I love that we can get through the stigma and just treat somebody with decency because we all deserve it.”
During various moments throughout the interview, Dupree would have moments where her Tourette’s syndrome took over.
“I want people to learn that Tourette’s is a neurological, involuntary motor and vocal disorder,” she said. “F*** off. F*** off. F*** off. I don’t tic 24/7, and there’s a lot of… Little baby weiners. F*** off. F*** you, Chris. There’s a lot of things that people don’t understand. Like, people think that cussing is with everyone who has Tourette syndrome, but it’s only in 10 percent of people with Tourette’s.”
During another moment, Dupree said: “I also get very evil people that would comment and say like — go f*** yourself, Chris. Little baby weiners. [inaudible] up your ass. Butter your own biscuit, fat a**. That have told me that my parents deserved to die in a car accident because I am faking my condition.”
Cuomo chuckled and tried not to laugh throughout the course of the interview.
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You are not your limitation, you’re what you decide to do with it. Baylen Dupree suffers from Tourette’s syndrome and she’s working to destigmatize it through social media. Instead of trying to hide her disorder she’s documenting her life, educating people on what its like to… pic.twitter.com/ebmSa90A1H
— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) December 13, 2023