“I felt really misunderstood because I felt like I was being labeled something falsely because I felt like I was telling the truth,” she said.
Walker insists the situation was not what it seemed. Walker was even confronted by Brumfield’s girlfriend, leading to an altercation between the two women. Her rendezvous with her co-star Don Brumfield landed her in hot trouble when Brumfield’s girlfriend caught wind of the relationship.
But Walker was viewed as a party girl and unfortunately, a homewrecker. Walker says the first few seasons filming the show showed the cast’s dynamic as fun friends and business associates. But when producers called her and informed her that Henry recommended her to be part of the cast, she took the chance. Walker says she paid it no mind at first. Ryan Henry, the owner of the tattoo shop, was approached about doing a reality show. As always, the life of the party balanced nights drinking Hennessy at the tattoo shop with managing projects at work during her 9-5. While there, she began mingling with her future Black Ink: Chicago crew. She left radio sales and took a job with Groupon.
I was in ad sales an account executive selling radio.” And then I ended up moving to Chicago because I got a job selling radio. “After I graduated from Howard, I moved to Miami to turn up for like six months. A post shared by Charmaine Black and I’m proud and that’s always been my aura,” the Howard University graduate said to Shadow and Act in a recent interview.