HGTV’s “Rehab Addict” has been canceled after the show’s star, Michigan native Nicole Curtis, was caught on video using a racial slur.
In the video, posted by Radar Online on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026, Curtis, 49, used the n-word while reportedly filming for “Rehab Addict” two years earlier. Warning: The video linked includes offensive and expletive language.
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“Oh, fart n*****,” Curtis said.
Right after she said it, she immediately said, “What the f*** is that that I just said? Nick, you gotta, you gotta, can you kill that?”
HGTV removed Curtis and the show from the network and, in a statement to TMZ, said it was “recently made aware of an offensive racial comment made during the filming of Rehab Addict. Not only is language like this hurtful and disappointing to our viewers, partners, and employees -- it does not align with the values of HGTV.”
Curtis posted an Instagram story on Wednesday and said, “There is more to this, but my family comes first, and I need to be mom right now more than anything else. I will take the time to be as I’ve always been with you, transparent and honest. TMZ called me as I had just turned my phone on after being at school - I said this briefly- but there is more.”
“Regarding HGTV, I’m grateful for the 15-year journey we’ve shared. It’s been a meaningful chapter, but my focus isn’t on my career,” Curtis wrote in a text message to TMZ, which she also posted on her Instagram story. “My focus, at this moment, is rightfully on my relationships, and my community-- the people who truly know my character and where my heart is. I want to be clear: the word in question is wrong and not part of my vocabulary and never has been, and I apologize to everyone.”
Curtis grew up in Lake Orion. “Rehab Addict” first aired in 2010, and featured Curtis renovating historic homes in Michigan and Minnesota. The video of Curtis using the racial slur was posted online the day that the show was slated to return to the network.