'It was a knee jerk of a reaction and it's certainly not the way that I feel nor what I meant,' Dee Nguyen said.

'What Dee did was absurd, insensitive & wrong. But most of all it was ignorant,' Wes Bergmann wrote on Twitter.

'As a result of Dee Nguyen's offensive comments on the Black Lives Matter movement, we have severed ties with her,' MTV's 'The Challenge' announced.