In a recent exclusive with The Guardian, former NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal opened up about life after being exposed as a white woman who for years had acclimated herself into activist circles and climbed the NGO ladder while claiming to be Black. To say that it hasn't been easy would be an understatement, as Dolezal, now 39, claims she hasn't been able to find work and is headed towards homelessness.

Dolezal made the front page of national dailies when her parents, Larry and Ruthanne, dropped a bombshell by confirming that she had been pretending all of the years that she presented herself as a Black woman. The news would grow into a full-blown scandal, leading to the NAACP unseating her from their Spokane, Washington branch, and Eastern Washington University firing her from her adjunct instructor position. Dolezal has remained steadfast in her ownership of the "transracial" label she's assumed, continuing to identify with what she believes are African roots far back in her ancestry, albeit she hasn't found many who legitimize her claim.

According to Dolezal, she's applied for over 100 jobs over the past two years but has been turned down by every single one of them. She has otherwise been offered opportunities in reality tv and porn, she says. It had been anticipated that she'd be successful in selling a memoir, which she recently completed and titled "In Full Color," but even that was turned down by 30 publishing houses. Dolezal says she gets by on government assistance and the help of friends, but admits that it is getting more and more difficult, and the fact that she's been universally shunned doesn't help.

“Right now the only place I feel understood and completely accepted is with my kids and my sister,” she told the publication. “The narrative was that I’d offended both communities in an unforgivable way, so anybody who gave me a dime would be contributing to wrong and oppression and bad things. To a liar and fraud and a con.”

Source: nydailynews.com