Naomi Campbell blasts Sandra Bernhard, calling decades-old ‘N-word’ Mariah Carey jokes ‘completely racist’

The past has caught up to Sandra Bernhard, as racially-charged remarks the comedienne made about Mariah Carey over 20 years ago are being revisited.

And supermodel Naomi Campbell is taking notice of it — and condemning it as “completely racist.”

Carey, the five-time Grammy Award winning hitmaker revealed to Campbell that the controversial remarks from Bernard’s 1999 HBO special “I’m Still Here… Damn It!” still reverberate with her — and not in a good way.

“She’s trying to backtrack on our asses by acting real [N-word]-ish there at the Royalton Hotel suite with Puff Daddy and all the greasy, chain-wearing Black men,” Bernhard said during the jaw-dropping standup act.

“I wish I would have called you back when it happened because I was so upset and nobody came to my rescue at that point,” the “Butterfly” singer-songwriter told the fashion icon during an interview for her YouTube series “No Filter With Naomi.”

“But whatever, I can’t — it’s ignorance,” Carey added.

Campbell said that Bernhard’s quip was “rude and disrespectful” as well as being “completely racist”.

“People can be very hurtful, but one of the things that hurt me, because I care about you and I care about the past, was what Sandra said. I was just like, ‘Are you for real?’ How did that even slide by?” she continued.

Gesturing at the record-breaking Long Island-bred icon, the British-born beauty added: “You are Black. You have every right. You are working also, in a professional capacity. I just felt like, now, I wanted to clear that up because I was pissed.”

For the record: Carey is the biological daughter of former opera singer of Irish descent, and an aeronautical engineer of African-American and Afro-Venezuelan descent.

In the past, Bernhard has defended the jokes — and even said that her relationship with early mentor, comedy great Paul Mooney, gave her license to do so.

“I have carte blanche to use that word from my friend Paul Mooney,” the off and on Madonna galpal said in a 1998 New York magazine profile written by Vibe magazine’s founding editor Jonathan Van Meter. “I’m a card-carrying white-Black girl. Plus, I have a huge Black following, so you know, it’s like a Black person saying [N-word-ish].”

In 2006, the Flint, Mich.-born funnywoman double-downed on the humor in a Seattle Weekly interview while promoting her other comedy special, “The Love Machine.”

“I think anybody Black who comes to my shows gives me carte blanche to say that because I’m really coming from their place,” she said. “I’m not some cracker up there...It’s so obvious that I’m a part of that culture.”

To add insult to Carey’s injury, the former “Roseanne” actress claimed that Carey’s camp took umbrage to the joke because of some supposed underlying truth embedded in the joke.

“[It] was so ridiculous because I didn’t dig into anything except what I saw on MTV, which was suddenly she was hanging out with Puff Daddy,” Bernhard said. “She had her manager at the time call me, whom I knew. And I was just, like, ‘You gotta be kidding me. I’m not making this s--t up, I’m not talking about her in any way that isn’t available to everybody.’”

“They were just upset because supposedly she’s half-Black,” she said. “Then why are you upset?” she continued, addressing Carey in the interview. “I’m saying [N-word]ish like you would say it, honey. And it’s also a comment on white people...Everybody laughed, so I must’ve hit a nerve.”

Video clips of the routine made the rounds on Twitter in August as Carey was starting to promote her new memoir “The Meaning of Mariah,” which was published by Andy Cohen’s imprint with publisher Henry Holt.

Ironically, Bernhard, 65, has a weekly talk-show on Cohen’s SiriusXM Radio Andy channel.

The “Pose” star has yet to make any new statements regarding the current backlash.

Last year, on Cohen’s “Watch What Happens Live” Bravo show, she said she was on good terms with Carey after the two briefly came face to face at the Sirius XM headquarters when she was promoting her latest music project.

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