Beverly Johnson recalls racist incident when a hotel drained its pool after she took a dip

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Supermodel Beverly Johnson recalled a racist incident she experienced at a hotel back in the ’80s.

Beverly Johnson speaks on racist incident

Johnson, 71, told Page Six about one time when she learned that a hotel drained its pool after she took a swim, because of the color of her skin.

“I did not know until we all went to the Eileen Ford’s 90th birthday party,” Johnson recalled of the incident.”

On Draining pools

“All the models were there, and the very rich people, and one girl said to me, ‘Remember when they drained the pool?’ When you got in the pool at the so-and-so hotel?” Johnson recalled.

“I was like, ‘They did?’ And she said, ‘You didn’t know that?’”

Johnson added, “This was during the ’80s, I would not say the name of the hotel because I don’t want to get sued.”

Johnson is now celebrating the 50th anniversary of her iconic Vogue cover in 1974.

The author of “The Face That Changed It All: A Memoir,” told the outlet, “So you get a lot of that. People draining pools, it was racist.”

She also said, “As a model, there were different kinds of things that would happen to me because I was Black.”