The Real Housewives of New York City alum, 51, made the comment during Tuesday’s episode of her Just B With Bethenny Frankel podcast while discussing actor/fellow podcast host Michael Rapaport’s remark that people who aren’t Jewish shouldn’t use the word Jew. She also talked about her Jewish background.

“I grew up with a stepfather who was Catholic, so I also went to church. I’ve had a sort of mutt upbringing of religion and thus ended up not being religious at all but being spiritual and cultural. So culturally, many people would think that I am Jewish. I have a last name that’s Jewish. I have family that’s Jewish. I am Jewish,” she said.

She continued, “And I say Jewish because I would have normally said, ‘The Jews have been through,’ but now I’m saying Jewish because people have taken license to say Jews and it’s in a derogatory manner.

“People say, ‘It’s good for the Jews, bad for the Jews.’ It’s something that I could say, but I won’t anymore because we want to lead by example,” she said.

Frankel went on to talk about an unnamed person who has been in the news recently for making antisemitic comments.

“I’m not saying this being’s name, because I don’t want to feed the beast,” she said. “I have been guilty. OK. I didn’t know I was guilty. I thought this person was a marketing genius because they had entered into different areas and been so successful…. So I feel responsible for talking about a person in a way that’s positive or giving a platform even about them negatively.”

Frankel’s podcast discussion on antisemitism comes after she pulled a positive review she had given on TikTok of socks from Kim Kardashian’s Skims product line. Over the weekend, Frankel uploaded a new TikTok in which she explained her decision to remove the review came after she learned that Kanye West—whom she doesn’t mention by name but is under fire for making antisemitic remarks on social media—owns a stake in Skims.

“It’s come to my attention that a certain individual who I will not discuss—because I decided I am cleansing them from any conversation that I have anywhere—that individual owns 5 percent of Skims,” she said in the clip.

Frankel ended the video by saying that the “5 percent owner of that business has created an antisemitic, dangerous, diabolical and destructive pattern throughout this country.”

Newsweek reached out to Frankel for further comment.