Below Deck’s Captain Sandy Faces Backlash After Calling Fraser Olender the ‘Cancer’ of the Boat: ‘It Makes Me Disgusted’
14.02.2023 - 23:43
/ usmagazine.com
The drama continues. Below Deck‘s Captain Sandy had an awkward sit-down with Fraser Olender where she called out his leadership — and the exchange didn’t sit right with some viewers.
During the new episode, which aired on Monday, February 13, Sandy, 57, voiced her concerns to Fraser after Alissa Humber talked back to her several times.
“When I see where we can change things, I expect you to go downstairs and shoulder what I just told you. That needs to be improved and not permeate the boat with cancer,” the Florida native said after hearing that the chief stew was sharing his feelings about her with his coworkers. “You have now infected my entire program. The fish stinks at the head and right now you are that head. What you have done is created the worst experience that I have ever experienced on a boat with a chief stew.”
Sandy continued: “When you have insubordination and just blatant disrespect, I don’t have room for that. It started with Fraser, and it needs to end with Fraser. He lacks respect for authority and he needs to earn my respect back.”
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Fraser, for his part, started crying as he recalled the conversation to his mother.
“I was really upset about the way I was spoken to by Captain Sandy, and I voiced my opinion to the rest of the crew. And the captain caught wind of that somehow — and has named me the cancer of the crew,” he said before bursting into tears on screen. “If someone refers to cancer to me ever again — with what I went through with my father — it makes me disgusted. The fact that she thinks so negatively of me makes me feel utterly horrendous.”
Fans quickly took to social media to call Sandy out for how she brought her issues to Fraser throughout