Colorado hairdresser denies deceptively-editing ‘Poolside Karen’s’ rant about ‘Mexicans’

A Colorado hairdresser who shared a viral video of a woman launching into a racist rant against a Mexican family has slammed claims it was ‘deceptively edited’. 

Jada Gallardo said she pulled out her phone to record the shocking tirade while relaxing by the pool at the lavish Alta Green Mountain apartment complex over the Fourth of July holiday weekend. 

The hairdresser’s footage was widely circulated after it caught Blair Featherman, 49, verbally abusing a Latino family nearby and calling them ‘f****** low-class slime’. 

But while Gallardo has doubled down and said Featherman was ‘acting belligerently crazy’, the so-called ‘Poolside Karen’ accused the hairdresser of editing the video for TikTok clout. 

Hairdresser Jada Gallardo (pictured) has doubled down and said ‘Poolside Karen’ was ‘acting belligerently crazy’ during her racist rant

In the TikTok video posted by Gallardo, Featherman was seen shouting vile racist epithets at a group of people sitting around the pool at the apartment complex. 

Featherman was heard calling the group ‘trash’, scolding them for hosting a ‘f****** Mexican party’, and mocking them for ‘not knowing what Hermes is’.

Speaking to the New York Post, Gallardo alleged that the confrontation heated up over the claims over the designer brand, with the hairdresser saying she fired back: ‘I’m wearing Hermes sandals!’

‘Just because [of] our skin tone we don’t know what an expensive designer is?’ she recalled saying, adding that Featherman’s rant made ‘a lot of people’ mad. 

She said Featherman was initially incensed after alleging that Gallardo and her boyfriend didn’t live at the Alta Green Mountain apartment complex, where units rent for up to $6,500 a month.

‘(Featherman) asked if we had a key fob,’ she said. After responding that she lived there, she claimed Featherman said: ‘I need to check your key fob because I work here and a lot of people have been coming in that don’t belong here.’

Gallardo also alleged that during the hostilities, Featherman even got into a brief physical fight. ‘There was a big wad of brown hair (on the ground after the fight)’, she added. 

Blair Featherman, 49, launched into a racist rant at her luxury apartment complex in Colorado, calling a group of Latinos ‘trash’

Gallardo said the racist tirade erupted over an argument about inviting outside members into the lavish apartment complex’s swimming pool

The ordeal took place at the Alta Green Mountain apartment complex, where condos cost up to $6,500 a month to rent

The version of events was supported by Melanie Rangel-Olmedo, another witness to the poolside diatribe, who said Featherman caused severe distress to the families. 

‘One father took his two daughters back home because he didn’t want them to hear the things that she was saying,’ she said.

Rangel-Olmedo added that members of Featherman’s group ‘kept apologizing’ after feeling embarrassed by the racist rant. 

Although police were eventually called to the pool, Rangel-Olmedo claimed the authorities only came after ‘hours’ of abuse from Featherman.  

While footage of the tirade was viewed millions of times after it spread through social media, Featherman claims she was actually a victim. 

Speaking to DailyMail.com, Featherman says she was goaded into her inappropriate remarks by Gallardo, who she believes did so for internet fame. 

‘I have been trying to stay silent and not comment about this, but there are things the video doesn’t show,’ art consultant Featherman, 49, said.

‘I’m not a racist. It was deceptively edited and put together to tell a narrative that isn’t true.’ 

Instagram model Gallardo was accused of editing the video for TikTok clout, but she has denied the claims as she slammed Featherman for being ‘belligerent’ 

Featherman told DailyMail.com that she was goaded into her comments by a wannabe model who is desperate for TikTok views

Featherman, who claims to be an expert in Feng Shui, the Chinese art of furniture arrangement, said she was attacked by the group, leading her to erupt in anger.

The argument over the number of guests Gallardo took to the pool spiraled out of control, and while Featherman admitted she was wrong to take the bait, she said it only occurred when she reached the end of her tether. 

She claimed members of the group were calling her ‘white b**** and white this and white that’, which came after she was ‘already having a bad day’. 

As she reached for the phone, she claimed she was physically attacked, with one woman clawing at her hair so violently that her artificial nails broke off.

The alleged attack is not included in the video that Gallardo, 32, posted on TikTok and Featherman said the video is cut so it then follows on several minutes later from a different angle. 

Video shows the moment Featherman hurled racial abuse at a Latino group for having a party at a Colorado swimming pool – set in a ritzy apartment complex where she lives

Featherman said she was the one who was attacked by a group of women, but claimed the posted video carefully avoided showing that

Recalling the aftermath of the alleged fight, Featherman said she was left in disbelief over the frantic scenes. 

‘I couldn’t believe what just happened, my heart was racing, and I was so full of adrenaline,’ she recalled. ‘I couldn’t think straight.’

Enraged and disoriented, she still had possession of the woman’s nails, and decided to open her hand so the group could see.

‘I have heard that people are assuming they’re pills that I am holding in my hand, but it’s actually her nails that I’m showing her,’ she said.

The video ends with police being called to the complex although no one was arrested.