Was definitely waiting for this. You can read the quote after the jump as well. She speaks on other stuff in the interview, too……if you really care.
In any light that a woman feels that she was disrespected….I have thick skin but when you’re at your job and somebody sexually harasses you in a manner that is very vulgar and disgusting, I have no shame in sticking up for myself and telling you, ‘you’re improper right now’. I’m at work, we’re on a set and there are children around us and you’re really out of line right now. I think that people should more so applaud a woman sticking up for herself and the people around her for sticking up for herself then allowing that kind of behavior to happen.
I think that we allow that behavior to happen too much in our society and we don’t put light on people being inappropriate. It’s okay ladies to speak up and say “No, I don’t like to be spoken to in that manner.†I respect myself and I respect others. I was a fan and I’m still a fan because I’m from New Orleans, Louisiana and he’s from Baton Rouge. I love his music and I’ve bounced with the best of them but to have somebody that you really were a genuine fan of to turn around ….I understand there was probably some type of little crush but there’s a manner in which you speak to people. He disrespected me and Terrence stood up for me and I stood up for myself. The network would not let anybody to come and disrespect their hosts in that manner.
It had to be severe enough for [banning him.] It wasn’t like it was a little blurb. It was really inappropriate and it’s really sad. I just hope that he just understands it. It’s never been an apology; it’s just been more of an upsetting incident and he can’t be on BET no more whereas it’s not been like “I’m sorry.†But his management and everybody has reached out. They’ve been super, duper nice and they’ve apologized. I think that they had problems with him before. I think if you YouTube him you can see other interviews where he’s been very, very inappropriate. I got the short end of the stick but some other women have gotten it from him, which is really sad.
