Televangelist and former Donald Trump spiritual adviser Paula White claimed that she helped Nelson Mandela end apartheid in South Africa.
White made the outrageous claim during the Universal Peace Federation 2023 Peace Summit in Seoul, South Korea, on May 4.
White — who claims to speak in tongues and once prayed for the angels of “Africa and South America” to reverse the 2020 election — claims in a resurfaced clip that she worked with Nelson Mandela to end apartheid in Pretoria, South Africa, while doing advocacy work, according to The Christian Post.
“Amen,” said White after being introduced and noting that she once lived in a trailer park with her young son despite being from a wealthy family. In America, they would’ve at the time called me trailer trash.”
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The televangelist said that after being given a turkey by a good Samaritan, she only kept half and gave the other half to people more unfortunate than herself, thus beginning her advocacy work.
“I began to feed homeless people, and I just asked God, ‘Could I spend the rest of my life doing this?’ My life was radically changed since I prayed a little prayer,” claimed the televangelist. “That advocacy started, and I would go to South Africa soon after that and build the first AIDS home in Pretoria, South Africa, and begin to work with Nelson Mandela to abolish apartheid.”
The Nelson Mandela Foundation’s Razia Saleh told the Post the foundation had no record of White ever working with Mandela.
“We have searched our holdings and do not find anything on Paula White,” said Saleh.
Several people reacted to the false claim on social media and noted the 57-year-old’s penchant for lies.
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