Jessica Krug Accused Of Calling Neighbor ‘White Trash’ While Pretending To Be Black

Jessica A. Krug, the George Washington University history professor who apologized for lying about being a Black woman, has been accused of taunting her neighbor with a racial slur.

On Thursday, Krug, who is caucasian, shared a blog post on Medium in which she admitted to lying about being her racial identity and intentionally deceiving friends and colleagues for years.

Following her confession, those who have had encounters with Krug have been publicly sharing their stories. Krug’s current neighbor in the Bronx, New York, Anna Anderson, told the Daily Mail that she has had issues with the GWU professor.

Anderson revealed that she and Krug had an argument over their bikes, which prompted Krug to lecture her neighbor about some of the racism that Black people deal with in modern society.

“‘Do you know what the police do to black people like me?’” Anderson said, recalling Krug’s words during a dispute.

Anderson went on to reveal that Krug accused her of “gentrifying” the neighborhood. “She called me white trash, which is ironic,” Anderson stated.

One of Krug’s former classmates also revealed that the Kansas native boycotted prom and planned a flag burning at her school in 1999.

Throughout Krug’s blog post, she reflected on her decision to pretend to be a Black woman and suggested her lies were caused by underlying mental health issues.

“To say that I clearly have been battling some unaddressed mental health demons for my entire life, as both an adult and child, is obvious,” she wrote.

“Mental health issues likely explain why I assumed a false identity initially, as a youth, and why I continued and developed it for so long; the mental health professionals from whom I have been so belatedly seeking help assure me that this is a common response to some of the severe trauma that marked my early childhood and teen years.”

Since Krug confessed to lying about her race, she has been criticized by members of the Black community, who were outraged by her behavior.

Meanwhile, Crystal Nosal, a spokesperson for George Washington, told Insider that the university was “looking into the situation” following Krug’s blog post.