{"id":65553,"date":"2025-12-09T13:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/65553\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T13:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:35:11","slug":"fired-cinnabon-worker-crystal-wilsey-jokes-about-becoming-influencer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/65553\/","title":{"rendered":"Fired Cinnabon worker Crystal Wilsey jokes about becoming influencer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former Cinnabon employee who was fired after she was filmed calling a Somali couple the N-word joked about using her newfound infamy to become an influencer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow many views do you have to have before you get paid by TikTok?\u201d Crystal Wilsey quipped in a TikTok video posted Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In another post, the Wisconsin mom staged a fake influencer \u201cunboxing\u201d video featuring the new McDonald\u2019s Grinch Happy Meal.<\/p>\n<p>Crystal Wilsey was fired after she was filmed calling a Somali couple the N-word while working at Cinnabon. Tiktok.com\/@dailypaypis<\/p>\n<p>Wilsey staged a fake influencer \u201cunboxing\u201d video featuring the new McDonald\u2019s Grinch Happy Meal. TikTok\/@geniusrain1<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause you made me famous on the racial card,\u201d she wrote on the clip.<\/p>\n<p>Wilsey, 43, whose outburst at a Black Somali couple at a Cinnabon location at Bay Park Square Mall in Ashwaubenon, near Green Bay, also shared a series of bizarre short clips featuring Labubu dolls.<\/p>\n<p>The Oneida, Wisconsin, mom previously denied she was racist, pointing to her \u201cblended\u201d family and \u201ccolored\u201d son, although it later turned out that the son was white, but had suffered from Addison\u2019s disease, a rare adrenal condition that can make the skin darker.<\/p>\n<p>Wilsey\u2019s foul-mouthed outburst on Friday reportedly began after a customer asked her to add more caramel to her pecan cinnamon roll.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am racist, and you are a n\u2014-r,\u201d Wilsey told the two customers, adding, \u201cI am racist and I\u2019ll say that to the whole entire world.\u201dShe also accused the pair of being \u201cdisrespectful.\u201dIt isn\u2019t clear what took place before the customer started recording Wilsey.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Court records show that Wilsey was charged with child endangerment, marijuana possession, and marijuana drug paraphernalia in February 2022, related to an incident when she was pulled over by state troopers while driving in Erie County, Ohio, according to records.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow many views do you have to have before you get paid by TikTok?\u201d Wilsey asked. Crystal Wilsey \/ Instagram<\/p>\n<p>She has also left a trail of legal damage across the Midwest, with a history of more than a dozen charges dating back almost 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>Cinnabon called the video \u201cdisturbing,\u201d and said the employee had been \u201cimmediately terminated\u201d by the franchise owner in the wake of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir actions and statements are completely unacceptable and in no way reflect the values of Cinnabon, our franchisees, or the welcoming environment we expect for every guest and team member,\u201d the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former Cinnabon employee who was fired after she was filmed calling a Somali couple the N-word joked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[33745,153,9873,2301,9,11,10,3863,14162,58,27929],"class_list":{"0":"post-65553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-cinnabon","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-immigrants","11":"tag-immigration","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-racism","16":"tag-somalia","17":"tag-us-news","18":"tag-wisconsin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}