'VPR' Stassi Schroeder: 'Off With My Head' Book Quotes

Reflecting on the past. Stassi Schroeder looked back at the moment — well, seven-day period — in which her 2020 cancellation took place during her second book, Off With My Head: The Definitive Basic B*tch Handbook to Surviving Rock Bottom, which was released on Tuesday, April 26.

The former Vanderpump Rules star, 33, equated being canceled on the internet to “a straight-up horror movie.” Stassi started off her second book acknowledging that she “made mistakes, huge ones” in the past.

“I know I’m the only one to blame, and I’ve been trying hard to do better,” she wrote. “Just imagine making a terrible mistake, but one that has nothing to do with how good you are at your job. And one that doesn’t truly reflect who you are. You’re fired because of that mistake, and no one else will hire you because they don’t want to be seen with you.”

In June 202o, Stassi and former VPR costar were fired from the Bravo reality series following an incident with fellow former cast member Faith Stowers, who accused them of past racist behavior. At the time, Faith, 33, went on an Instagram Live with with Floribama Shore star Candace Rice and recounted her experience as the only Black cast member on VPR. Faith also recalled an instance when Stassi and Kristen called the police on her following her departure from the show.

“There was this article on Daily Mail where there was an African American lady,” Faith explained at the time. “It was a weird photo, so she looked very light-skinned and had these different, weird tattoos. They showcased her, and I guess this woman was robbing people. And they called the cops and said it was me.”

Stassi and Kristen have both since apologized for their past actions. The Next Level Basic: The Definitive Basic Bitch Handbook author, for one, explained the situation at-length in her newly released book.

“During this season, Kristen Doute — my fellow cast member — started getting texts from people alleging that Faith had stolen from them in the past and saying that Faith was in a surveillance video showing someone stealing. Then, we saw a news article with a video still of the woman who was accused of stealing,” Stassi claimed in Off With My Head. “So, we called the tip line. We stupidly thought it might be Faith partly because multiple people had been texting Kristen saying it was her. And also, in our very flawed detective work, we thought the description of the woman’s tattoos sounded like Faith’s.”

After the incident, Stassi told the story on a since-deleted episode of the “Bitch Bible” podcast from 2018. “I wasn’t hiding it. But I also shouldn’t have been talking and joking about it,” she wrote in Off With My Head. “We also shouldn’t have made that phone call but I didn’t understand that at the time.”

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Stassi went on to admit that she had “a lot to learn” in the aftermath of her cancellation.

“It took me a while to process my feelings and recognize how layered it all was,” she wrote. “It took time to recognize that Faith felt it was about race because there is an actual serious problem between the Black community and the police in America. I understand that now.”

Scroll through the gallery to read Stassi’s quotes about her cancellation from Off With My Head.

The 1st Day

Opening her book, Stassi recounted that her “canceling didn’t actually happen overnight.” The reality star said it was over a one-week period with phone calls from various brands, her PR team, agency and Bravo. Her “sponsors” came first. Stassi noted in the book that she didn’t “get angry” when she was dropped by brands amid the scandal.

“We’re all out here just trying to survive and protect the things we built. So, if a sponsor quietly parts ways with me, they have my respect,” she wrote, in part. Elsewhere, Stassi added, “Losing my sponsors hurt but it didn’t break my spirit.”

Her Initial Apology

In an Instagram statement released in June 2020, Stassi apologized for “racially insensitive comments” from her past. When reflecting on the apology in her book, she claimed that the “not so well received” apology was written, in part, by her publicists who had dropped her following the incident.

“I admit that I was not ready to apologize at that time. I hadn’t yet fully grasped why this was about race,” she explained, noting that she felt “pressured from anyone and everyone” to release some sort of statement. She acknowledged that she wished she had “time to process” before speaking out.

What She’s Learned

Since the incident, Stassi noted that the “most profound” thing she learned was: “Because it was not about race for me, doesn’t mean that it wasn’t about race for Faith.”

She went on to thank diversity, equity and inclusion strategist May Snowden, with whom she had weekly Zoom meetings and spoke about being “culturally competent.” Stassi wrote that she had finally been educated about Black History.

Her and Kristen’s Friendship

Stassi acknowledged her and Kristen’s friendship was on the rocks when they were ultimately fired from Vanderpump Rules. Once everything happened, the two “began texting each there.” At that point, they wrote that she and Kristen had “let it go,” referring everything that they had gone through in the past.

Where She and Lisa Vanderpump Stand Now

Stassi addressed where she and former boss Lisa Vanderpump stand now, explaining that there’s no bad blood between them. Nearly a year after the scandal, she ran into the restaurant owner while out in Beverly Hills with a group of friends. They had an “oddly comforting” chat and moved on. “It was nice to see her and have things on good terms,” Stassi wrote, wishing the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star “the best.”