Stacey Dash says she made 'mistakes' when she was a Fox News commentator

• The actress-turned-political-commentator said she's no longer the "angry Black woman" that was depicted on Fox News.
• Dash said her change of heart came after the Capitol riots back in January.
• "That's who Stacey was, but that's not who Stacey is now," she told the Daily Mail.

"Clueless" star and former Fox News commentator, Stacey Dash, is apologizing for previous comments she made on air and is also denouncing Donald Trump.

Looking back on her time as a commentator on the conservative news network, from 2014 to 2017, Dash told the Daily Mail Wednesday that she "made a lot of mistakes."

"I've lived my life being angry, which is what I was on Fox News," she said. "I was the angry, conservative, Black woman. And at that time in my life it was who I was."

During her tenure, Dash made shocking comments, including in 2015 when she said that then-President Barack Obama didn't "give a s---" about terrorism. The network suspended her for two weeks afterward. Dash also raised eyebrows when in response to the lack of diversity at the 2016 Oscars, she opined that "we need to get red of" BET, a cable channel dedicated to Black culture, and its BET Awards.

Following her time at Fox News, Dash continued to grab headlines due to her political views. In 2018, while running for a seat in Congress, she went on MSNBC and agreed with Trump's "very fine people on both sides" comment following the Charlottesville riots the previous summer.

"Being a supporter of Trump has put me in some kind of box that I don't belong in," she said. "But he's not the president. I'm going to give the president that we have right now a chance."

The conservative actress said this change in her views came when she watched the Capitol riots on January 6 when Trump supporters occupied and vandalized the US Capitol building. Five people died and more than 140 were injured.

"I think the Capitol riots were appalling," she said. "When that happened I was like 'OK, I'm done. I'm truly done,' because senseless violence of any kind I denounce. What happened on January 6 was just appalling and stupid."

Dash said that though she doesn't consider herself a feminist, she is also not the "angry Black woman" depicted on Fox News.

"There are things that I am sorry for," she said. "Things that I did say that I should not have said ... the way I said them. They were very arrogant and prideful and angry."

Dash said going forward she wants to rebuild her acting career and hopes to star in a superhero movie one day.