Former L.A. City Council president says the year since her racist remarks were leaked has been painful

The former president of the Los Angeles City Council who was caught on tape comparing the Black son of a colleague to a monkey and saying Indigenous Mexicans were ugly said in an exclusive interview that she is not racist and paid a “huge, huge, huge price” for her comments.

Nury Martinez, who stepped down a year ago amid an uproar over the comments, told Telemundo52 and NBC4 in Los Angeles, that she has had a long, painful year since the comments recorded in a 2021 closed-door meeting were leaked.