In an exclusive interview with LAist Studios, former Los Angeles City Council president Nury Martinez speaks publicly for the first time since she resigned nearly a year ago over a leaked audio recording that captured her making racist and disparaging remarks.
“I’ve thought about that particular day, God, a thousand times, if not more,” Martinez says in an interview with Antonia Cereijido, host of LAist Studios’ Imperfect Paradise. The new season of the award-winning podcast, “Nury and the Secret Tapes,” begins on Wednesday, Sept. 27, and the trailer is available now.
Martinez spoke to Cereijido in a wide-ranging interview for a four-part story that looks back at the scandal and examines the political context leading up to the leaked audio tapes. She also addresses the specific language that she used about former L.A. city council member Mike Bonin’s son and her hurtful comments directed at the Black and Oaxacan communities.
The first episode will focus on the scandal itself — what was said in the room where it all happened, and how did key players in the scandal react to the tape? In the second episode, listeners will get a deep dive into Martinez’s upbringing in the San Fernando Valley and her rise to becoming one of the most powerful women in Los Angeles politics. In the third episode, Cereijido asks Martinez to answer for the comments that she made in that room.
The series features a frank conversation between Martinez and Cereijido about how her comments are…
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