And you’ve been public about all you endured while in a relationship with him and Suge Knight. JET: The trailer depicts Dre as physically abusive. Michel’le: Oh yea, well you know…whatever…he was a good kisser so…(laughs) JET: But eventually it did blossom into something for quite some time… I wasn’t checking for him at all! (laughs) not even a little bit. He was attracted to me! He stared at me, I stared at him…he just kept staring at me and then finally he got my number and started calling my house. JET: From the trailer, it appears that story deals heavily with you and Dr. So I needed to stop fighting with these women, because he wasn’t my man! It’s so much to learn when you watch the movie, ‘why am I fighting with the woman? It makes no sense and I wanted to get it out to strengthen women.
When men are having families and relationships outside of that, that’s not your man. Michel’le: I go back about 20-something years ago and explain a lot of questions that I’ve been asked: ‘How did you go from Ruthless to Death Row?’ So I tried to clear that up and also let people know that ‘maybe I wasn’t the smartest bulb in the chandelier’, so give me a break! What I did back then is being done now and people are having marriages from it! (laughs) So I’m like wow! It’s really trying to show women that abuse is not love. JET: How deep of a story are we getting with Surviving Compton? Like, why not?! Are we going to bury this like we bury AIDS, cancer and molestation? We need to stop bury things and talk about it because if I had heard this story when I was 15, I would have said ‘oh no, I’m going to be more cautious of that.’ But everybody wants to be the hero in their story, so it’s hard. I’m shocked that more women are saying “why now” than men. I chose to tell you guys what I really went through because I thought it was a better message in that.
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Really what the movie is about and why I think it was good to tell is, I could have given you guys a movie about a good girl, sugarcoated it and said that’s my story. I was approached with the opportunity and I took it. Dre told his story in Straight Outta Compton, I think by him not including me, my absence was noticed and people started their own campaign about ‘why wasn’t she in the film?’ So it kind of manifested itself. JET: When news circulated that you’d be producing a biopic, some said “why now?” Why was it important for you to get this film out? JET caught up with Michel’le and discussed the message behind Surviving Compton and lessons passed on to her children about love and relationships. She details her love for music and the pain that came with it, including her abusive relationship with Dr.
In the made-for-TV movie, Michel’le, who ran the charts with hits such as “Nicety” and “Something in My Heart” invites viewers completely into her world. Dre, Suge and Michel’le, which premieres on Oct. The chain of events and everything in between is now the centerpiece of her Lifetime biopic Surviving Compton: Dr. Dre and some time later dating Suge Knight and signing on as an artist on his Death Row record label. They were still trying to have a life and sometimes people don’t always make the best decisions.”įast forward to her teenage years and Michel’le, a quiet and shy teenager, would find herself in the studio laying vocals and later being signed to Ruthless Records, in a turbulent relationship with music producer Dr. “When we found out Prince could play all those instruments, we were in awe!,” she tells JET.īut then, her voice lowers from the excitement of the memory and shares, “My parents were never a couple in the household, they just had sex and there I was…I think my parents did the best they could at the time. And like her dad, she, too, had amazing vocals. Her dad was a singer, her brother had skills on the drums and her mother played the guitar. In her South Central, Calif., home, tunes from The Commodores, War and Prince filled the space. Michel’le has always been a fan of music.
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