Iyanla Vanzant “I wanted freedom” On the Reason For Ending Her Show

Iyanla Vanzant knew it was time to leave her show on OWN after nine years. She felt it, said the Iyanla: Fix My Life host on Tamron Hall Wednesday. The final episode aired on May 21, 2021.

How nervous were you when you had to make it official, asks Hall?

“I wasn’t nervous because one of the things that I’ve learned is when I get an intuitive hit or guidance to do something, I sit with it until it’s solid in me. If it’s not solid in me and once I present it to everybody else, what I’m going to get from them are my doubts, my fears, my hesitations because they are going to reflect back to you what you’re holding inside. By the time I spoke it, I was solid.” responded Vanzant.

“I wanted freedom,” explains Vanzant as the main reason for calling it quits with her popular platform. Explaining that one of the reasons she was able to say “Fix My Life” is done was because each year, she worked on something (of herself). “I work on joy. I work on peace. I work on service. My principle was freedom, freedom to be, to do, to go. And you know doing this show, you don’t have no freedom,” she laughs. “I took a stand for what I value,” says Vanzant.

I was stunned. The team was stunned when we heard that part of that freedom you desired was being free of criticism and being scrutinized and that people watching the show would scrutinize things like your hair and your nails, and you had grown tired of what you said were people being mean and nasty, says Hall.

“I’m very sensitive to energy,” replied Vanzant. “You go into people’s homes, you’re in their bathrooms or their kitchen…they think they know you. And they think they have a right to say certain things because we’re not clear and conscious of the energy we send out, so through the emails and the social media, people were coming to my home. I was getting death threats because they didn’t like something I said or did. I want to be free of this.” said the author.

Vanzant continued and shared with Hall that she got death threats around certain shows and issues. People would find her address or call asking for help to which Vanzant says, “I have so many vehicles to serve people. I have social media; I have classes. I teach. You don’t get to call me on my private phone at 2 o’clock in the morning, and so I just wanted to be free of that,”

But, wait, Iyanla is not done helping others no matter the past negative behavior. Watch as she discusses her latest project with Hall in the clip below.