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With the smash hit of “R&B Divas LA” it was only a matter time before someone was branded the “difficult” one.
No one I know was surprised that Nicci Gilbert became the ‘outcast’ of the Atlanta season (you’ve gotta be hell on wheels to get kicked off of a show you ‘allegedly’ created, right?), however most were left scratching their heads when industry underdog Kelly Price became ‘that girl’ this season.
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At the start of the L.A. season, Kelly was the one who brought the six ‘divas’ together and introduced the idea of a ‘Vagina Monologues’ type show called ‘Not Your Mama Monologues,’ but her co-stars, mainly Chante Moore and Lil Mo, forged ahead with the idea when Kelly was apparently ‘too busy’ to participate in her own creation.
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Oddly enough, it was their enthusiasm to proceed that caused a bit of tension and had Kelly coming off as a bit of a control freak. And that’s putting it nicely.
Speaking out in favor of the Grammy nominee is her fellow ‘Divas’ cast mate Dawn Robinson, who is attempting to do damage control clear the air on the shocking attitude revelations of Mrs. Price.
Here’s what Dawn wants y’all to know…
See, this is the thing; this is what’s hard. When you show a bunch a stuff, and you have all this footage, and then they just break it down to certain parts of it, and then they omit certain things that you did say, but they don’t put that part in there because they want you to look a certain way.
So this is why I was telling her, ‘Kelly, whatever we do, don’t react to people in an angry way, because they’re going to film that, and that’s what they’re gong to show. They want to show us fighting against each other, they want to show anger, the angry Black woman, and you’re so much better than that. Please hold your peace as much as you can, and don’t let these people take you off your greatness. You are a queen – we don’t go there, don’t do it.’
I’ve just been praying with Kelly because her heart is broken over what she’s sees of herself [on the show]. You build up a career to a certain point, you fought and battled through that career to be heard and seen.
People talked about her weight and all the different things, and now to have a reality show tear you down? Uh uh, no, uh uh, no way! I’ll be damned. Because these people go on to get different jobs, when we have only one career.
I always tell people that all the time. You guys can get six other women in our place; each season, a new group of six women. We only have one career. I only have one Dawn Robinson, and I’ll be damned if somebody’s going to come in and take it all because of some reality show. That is not what I signed up for! I signed up for positivity.[Source]
Are we still arguing bad editing with reality shows? Seriously? Isn’t that right up there with ‘my twitter was hacked’?? I don’t know because I certainly wasn’t there during their tapings, but it seems obvious that if you ‘self-edit’ then there’s little to no room for anyone else to ‘edit’ you into a monster. I’m just sayin…
I’ve met Kelly and she was nothing but nice to me, but the ‘Kelly Price’ on R&B Divas LA shows a totally different side of her personality.
What do YOU think… is Kelly sanging the blues over her outlandish antics gone viral? Or is she merely a victim of that damn editing monster?
In case you missed it, watch episode 6 of R&B Divas L.A. below…
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I attended an HBCU in 2000 we wanted Kelly to do the homecoming concert and she said no because people "our age" don’t appreciate her music. I have not spent my money on her music since.
*a HBCU
Wrong. Its an HBCU. CHECK YOUR ENGLISH BOOK.
Your wrong I’m an English major Dumbass, use "an" if the word starts with a vowel
CityGirl is right. Also, Nesco, Miss English major? It’s *you’re not *your. YOU’RE WELCOME.
LMAO!!!!!
Jay, LMMFAO! I didn’t even catch the "you’re" part…so used to seeing it misspelled on FB.
"an" HBCU.
Well you know what…. I will not spend one dine on someone so disrespectful. This is sooo sad. Editing my a** what we saw was the real Kelly. I just can’t believe that she said she had a razor…Really???? I’m not a celebrity and I know that If I go on national T.V. to act like I got some sense..I know my family and friends and church is watching..Kelly this is bad on soo many levels..If you’re praying you really needs too.
..Wrong dumb asses…it is "an’ HBCU… Vowels and ‘H’ words use ‘AN’
Girl boo. Boy boo. Whatever you are….BOO.
"The sound of a word’s first letter determines which to use. If the word starts with a vowel sound, you should use an. If it starts with a consonant sound, you should use a."
You’re "technically" correct. But if it’s "Historically Black Colleges and Universities" which HBCU stands for then you use an "a".
So I’ll give you that one…but I’m far from a "dumbass" sweetie.
I just sounded out my acronym. Have a \_______. Several in fact… UGH!!!
Phoneticly, "H" is pronounced "aitch", so you would use "an" in front of "HBCU" (an aitch bee see yoo), but "a" if saying "Historically".
It irks me, when they wanna say, they were “edited” to look a certain way. You can´t “edit” a persons attitude. How she acted, is how SHE ACTED. The cameras didn´t make her act that way. Kelly was out of control & she now sees that, so she´s she´s sitting at home feeling some type of way. I don´t by far think she´s a bad person. She´s just very controlling & likes to be in charge, & when she can´t have her way, she acts very hood, & immature. Hopefully, she now sees her faults & will try to better herself.
kelly is a B*&^%h point blank can´t justify that!!
I agree Tara. . .Don´t blame it on the camera´s or editing. . Her attitude turned sour when they hired that other editor and she was very ugly toward him and Chante. . Kelly Price was one of my favorite female artist BUT she got knocked out of that slot with thay nasty attitude
COSIGN!
I think a lot of ppl are surprised by Kelly´s attitude. Which I don´t think we will ever look at her same. Some of these celeb should not participate in these type of shows which may hurt their image.
You can´t edit crazy!!! She just showed her true personality
This need to be a lesson for every singer, actor, or professionals who have worked hard to achieve some success…… STAY OFF THE DAMN REALITY TV SHOWS!!! Happily married people stay off too. Broadcasting your business for the world to see can damage your relationships, reputation or fan base. Stick to doing whatever it is you do best cause you looking like a fool!
Add FB/Twitter to that.
Dawn is a kiss ass to Kelly Price
lol AND Is not DAWN the same girl who was kicked out of 2 groups (En Vogue and Lucy Pearl) so I doubt that reality show is the problem as she says seems more like DAWN
I could not have been Fred! I would´ve cursed her big ass out. Forreal…
Truthfully I’ve been disgusted with both Nicci and Kelly since when Whitney first passed and Nicci went on Dr. Drew with that Stacy chick. I sensed then something was not quite right with those two. They can edit all they want but can’t edit your foul nasty behaviors. I liked this one better than ATL however Kelly and her whiny flunky ruined this one as well. She was hella disrespectful to Fred and Chante with the vasaline and boots and razor which btw were not props cause she said it’s really gonna be tense. You can not defend someone defenseless.
I’m with Kelly ! How in the world are you going to run someone’s creative idea ?
Some of them was looking like they only had one bone. Maybe if they weren’t so hungry for fame Kelly would not have been betrayed . Shout out to the creative energy there is more where that came from trust.
When will we learn that teamwork makes the dream work! Yes it was her idea but the show was two and a half weeks away and she hadn’t even contacted her people! If it was her vision and she wanted to control it she should have been better prepared and had her people in place to make it happen!
you are 100% correct! With it being crunch time they would have looked like amateurs in their craft and it would have looked rushed and unpolished..these woman have lives outside of singing many have families, you can’t just jump up and practice when KELLY was ready..If Kelly knew she didn’t have the time she should have appointed someone else and at LEAST sent her director to them until she could get caught up..she has to take the brunt of the blame, this entire situation could have been avoided through professionalism.
Kelly is a hot ragedy mess. She didnt have that director pegged in the beginning, she only threw that out there because she wanted to be in control. If she already had him in mind and had already discussed it with him then there would have been no need for that last minute phone call that she made to get him to LA. It’s not editing it’s you Kelly! Spoiled, Immature, brat!
Kelly didn’t have time for them. She brought an idea but she didn’t call a producer until 3 weeks before show time…like really who does that? The girls moved forward, you brought us this idea but you have no producer so we are gonna bring one in. Kelly didn’t mention that she had a producer until the girl took initiative. If she had someone he should have been there from jump, not 3 weeks before showtime. Then she claims no one ever told about Fred, like he was brought in behind her back. Kelly knew about Fred then played stupid when he was there. If this monologue thing is supposed to be her "baby", her idea" then she should have put out more of an effort to make it happen. Then on top of all of that she is selfish. She doesn’t want to work with anyone who she is isn’t comfortable with but yet she is ready to force the girls to work with someone they don’t know??? Kelly is whack!
Right, Right, and Right!!!
Kelly should have considered her SCHEDULE before she goes dishing an idea and having NO time to do it.(cough, cough). Bunch of BS. The heffa just can’t be bothered when she is not in control. She hitched her horse and cart up backwards. She should have already chosen the production team and then introduce the idea to the ladies. This for me has made me think differently about her. It’s not editing Dawn, this is WHO she IS. The editing excuse is worn out. If you know you are a lose cannon, have mental issues, or control issues DON’T go signing up to do Reality TV – Cuz the reality of it all is THIS IS THE REAL YOU. When you want to be a one woman show don’t do anything that includes you and ANYONE ELSE EVER.
the same way she ran with it because vagina monologues isn’t new or original anymore and monologues sure isn’t either…and next she didn’t copyright shit. hell I don’t hear anything by her but I guess she’s booked…and not i’d pay to see chante and lil mo a lot faster for sure.
I believe strongly that this IS Kelly, I think she has control issues and just wanted people to wait on her. Since they didn’t and also did not clear with her they were going ahead caused the main issue. Kelly was very disrespectful to teh producer when her main issue was the ladies forging ahead NOT that he was there. She can’t undo those "props" she brought or her jumping in his face..that was ALL her
BUt see that’s the the thing they didn’t move along with her knowing. Both Chante and Lil Mo told Kelly about Fred before he even came. Kelly just never showed up until two weeks after he got there.
You know WHAT? You ARE right! I stand corrected,they did tell her she just wanted it on her time..everything was last minute and they showed her up by doing what SHE was supposed to do.
What grown ass women brings boots, grease, and i think she said a razor like she is ready to fight. Thats the same foolishness Crazy Jackie did on Basketball wives. In my younger days, I would’ve squared her big butt up while she was putting on her boots and by the time she was greasing her face, I would’ve already spit my razor (some of you know what I mean by that) and her grease would’ve been obsolete.
I agree with most other people on here when saying that you can not edit "crazy". The camera can only record what is in front of it.
When she presented the idea to the ladies, it became a group project. If she had certain people that she wanted to hold certain positions then she should have expressed that when she presented. The team waited around on Kelly to start rehearsing but because she was so "busy" nothing happened. The team decided to pick up the ball and take charge to make it happen which is what a team is suspose to do. Lil Mo and Chante told her about Fred and she had no response. That was the time to voice her opinion or issues with them hiring another producer. Instead, she waits to rehersal and proceedes to be nasty with everyone.
Chante or Lil Mo is no punk and is not scared of Kelly. Dawn is a follower and does not appear to have her own mind. I would not let someone elses choices or issues prevent me from bringing in my check. But, that’s just me… However, she seems a little off and boring anyway so who cares…….
Kelly’s image has definetely been tarnished and I hope that she can repair. First, take accountability for your actions, apologize and move on.
That all her…she hasn´t taken off her sunglasses yet to address anyone verbally since she took out her times and grease. She has shown out. I personally think she has a mental disorder
LOL!
Kelly has screwed up her image…editing…really the blaming of editing??? So the producers her hop in fred’s face and act like an a$$. The producers and editing made her be nasty to chante? No boo yo butt is crazy and controlling and it all got caught on tape!!!
Having Dawn on your team is not a good thing she goes which ever way the wind blows and she has a history of being weak and a quitter! Kelly is Mess she just mad because now people see a side of her that she was able to hide before. Kelly has some very nasty ways. Kelly is very talented and yes her calendar may be full, but it will never be full of A-Class job until she get rid of he D-list attitude. That the real reason she’s no as big of an artist as she could be.
I thought this group of mature seasoned women would’ve brought a positive insight to and about women in the industry…but I was wrong. This is the same ghetto, hood-rat staving for attention foolishness as the other shows. These are grown ass mature women and they are acting a fool. I like Lil Moe but she needs to stop with those hats looking like a smurf and talking like Cheryl Underwood. I like Kelly Price as well, but if she knew her schedule was so damn busy then she should’ve turn down the opportunity for the show and work her professional schedule. Everyone in reality show business wants to show that they still have alot of "hood" in them and have that "I will not be disrepected" syndrome. Truth is, each has displayed self disrespect acting a fool on televison. Hell, I was surprised that Angie Stone signed up for this foolishness. Now I still like the Atl housewives and so glad that they don’t fight and that each is showing a honest hustle. All that grown women who barely have a pot to piss in and a window to throw it out acting a damn fool on televison needs to cease.
Dawn just didn’t want to deal with the drama because it was Kelly’s idea. The first mistake was Kelly not setting up a director and important people to help guide the monologues. Their mistake was moving when she stopped moving. She has been a bitch and a total control freak. But, they shouldn’t take her idea and run with it.
Even if it is editing (I don´t think it is), she knew what she signed up for. Nicci Gilbert said the same thing and so have other “reality stars.”
Sad thing is Nicci said it for 2 sesons. Now if "editing" was the reason that I looked bad in seaon 1, please believe by season 2 that I would have mad some changes.
These R&B Diva shows crack me up….some of these women act as if they are still top selling chart topping artist….so laughable and it is always the R&B Diva who is shaped like a mountain that is the drama queen…sooo hilarious and sad…
Editing can do a lot of things, but it can’t make you say something you actually didn’t say. Editing didn’t make her bring a bag with Timberlands, a jar of vaseline, and a straight edge and then act like it was "a prop for the show." It didn’t make her disrespect that director and treat him like he was dog sh*t under her shoe. And editing didn’t make her too busy to organize an event that she she brought to the table and asked for everyone else’s help with. Though, in my opinion, the whole vagina monologues thing was silly and unoriginal anyway. It’s been done before!
Dawn did NOT want to do the monologues in the first place. She is not ready nor comfortable to purge. She used the fact that Kelly backed out as an excuse to quit. She was just waiting for the opportunity to dip on the project and Kelly was her out. Dawn is boring and weak. Lil’Mo talks all that chit in the interview shots, but when she is faced with Kelly, she don’t say a damn thang. The only one I have respect for on that show is Chante. Everybody else is walkin on eggshells tryin to please Kelly, a woman who cleary thinks she is better than the resume. She constantly brings up the fact that her schedule is "full" as a way to demean the other ladies. Basically sayin, "Yall aint got chit else going on. I can walk away from this because I have stuff going on." Kelly is full of chit. Calling her a bit@h would be an understatement.
EXACTLY!!!!
Chante is G!! I love it!! Little people dont play !LOL!!
*better than the rest of them
I am surprised at Kelly, but no one told her to bring timberland boots and vaseline. Did they edit that??
All these opinions and statements are true..I really have nothing to say.BUUUTTTTT…..
Its unfortunate that reality t.v. can make a great person look like a monster. And Kelly is just that. Not saying she is 2-faced and talking behind peoples back, but 2-faced as in the singer Kelly and the real life, acting a fool on t.v.,Kelly.
I dont think Lil’Mo is scared of Kelly, I just think in what I have saw, Kelly has been directing her anger at Chante and not Lil’Mo. Lil’Mo stays in her lane or tries to make peace, but if Kelly comes for Lil’Mo without Lil’Mo sending for her(saw how I did that..lol) Lil’Mo will bring it to her. IJS.
Dawn has alot going on in her life with this whole baby thing and I think she is removing herself from anything that is going to cause her stress because we all know stress plays a big role in trying to get pregnant. She said she does not want to be around anything negative, right? Doing the monologues would bring up bad feelings and cause her to back track. Kelly had encouraged her to do it, but deep down inside, Dawn did not want to do this.
I really don’t think the Monologues was Kelly’s idea. I think TV one used her as the person to bring it to the girls. I thought I heard Lil Mo say that "The show" hired Fred.
I have no words for Kelly. Everyone else said what I was thinking.
That would explain why Chante said no it wasn’t when Kelly said this was her idea…
Kelly got the typical overweight girl syndrome..Insecure and something to prove..she craves attention because she is NOT comfortable with her LOOK ..she so much wants to shine over the rest of the ladies because she knows they share her vocal abilities and they are more physically appealing
When kelly speaks it is in the I I I mode most of the time ..I was done with Ms Price when she put herself in the shine mode after whitney died claiming whitney was her best friend but yet still attending a party with her cold body upstairs …It is all about Kelly and I think she actually thought doing a reality show would put her phat arse back into the spotlight in a good way…LoL
Kelly should never have told any of them about her idea. Lack of story line on the other ladies part only added to the desperation of wanting to make some money. Like Kelly said "where are you going to have the show I’ll buy a ticket."
Dawn is Kelly Prices “do girl”
I don’t give a DAMN about this damage control. The fact remains that the things that Kelly DID say were so rude. Several times she said to all the ladies, "I don’t care either way my calendar is full." So pretty much telling them they need to do the show because they are washed up but she is still on top. That is BS!!! I am so not liking her now that I watched the show. Her attitude better turn around QUICK!
Hahaha! Anger issues?
I ain´t listening to nothin Dawn got to say she is damn near 50 n tryna have a baby by someone she´s known for 6 mos
wow LOL you right
In the words of Real World’s Heather B "they can only use WHAT YOU GIVE THEM. If you give them nice, then you show nice…if you give them nasty, you show nasty….so you can’t be talking about I really wasn’t a bitch, that wasn’t me…YES IT WAS".
She said those words 25 years ago to address Tami Roman’s behavior and it still rings true. Nicc and Kelly acted out, acted controlling, acted like buillies now they are mad that their shit is front and center. Maybe the wizard toll Kelly to bring a "fight bag" to rehersal? Whatever…if you don’t want to be portrayed as an ass DON’T ACT LIKE AN ASS WHILE THEY FILM YOU. R
crazy that most of these woman have real talent and they sign up for tv to do foolishness wow sad
Kelly was a pure B*tch to Fred and Chante. That was not editing, she was rude and disrespectful.
This is a message to all celebs. If you have a nasty attitude stay off of televsion with these reality shows, because you will lose the few fans you have left.
The part is that this was a good show and had my attention before all of the drama started. Overdrmatics is not always needed when you have true talent.
"sad part"
lmao @larry leon lewis. I´m thinking she prob got more money to act a damn fool too..while everyone was thinking this one was going to be positive, but I´m feeling Chante..petite but powerful..they forgot lil mo was hood too lol..she was ready to go.
Kelly Price is a narcissist! They showcased what she gave them. She feels she’s better than all of these ladies. She thinks she’s the shizynee because she played the back to some big name artist. She wants to be in control just like Nicci Gilbird. Bye Felecia! Ain’t nobody got time for that. She ain’t no better than the rest because if she was she wouldn’t be on no damn reality show. Now she wanna cry foul because she’s looking crazy on national tv. Something tells me after this she’s going to have a lot of free time on her hands. OH WELL…
Yall ladies need to calm down. I understand y’all are emotional and like dressing mess up for chatter, but let’s be realistic. How much nastier is Kelly’s attitude from yours? I see all kinds of curse words on here and what so and so should have done to Kelly. If you want sensible people to give you any credibility about Kelly’s attitude, then you need to exemplify how lady like you are and how much better you act in real life. Kelly really didn’t do anything as far as I am concerned. You all are acting like she hit somebody, or spit on someone or something. She didn’t even curse anyone out like lil Mo. If she was a guy y’all wouldn’t even care . And how dare Chante chose Fred over Kelly which is supposed to be her friend. Women have been doing this for ages. All because Chante wants to fuck Fred.
ugh fred was hired by tv one that’s why Kelly was upset because she felt they did not let her take control of the situation and Kelly did not come up with the idea alone tv one came up with the plot they made that statement!
Fred was hired by Tvone this is true although the editing made it appear as if Chante and Lil Mo hired him. But the idea was completely Kelly’s idea. The entire season was centered around Kelly’s ideas not just the monologues.
Chante wants to do what to Fred?
Can somebody tell Chante that those eyelashes are about two feet too long? Please and thank you.
Kelly is a fat spoiled brat that was obviously rewarded with food constantly at a young age. Her attitude is appalling. It kills me that people blame editing on actual dialogues that take place…Lmao..there isn’t a green screen in the world that could make that $hit happen.
Now when I casually said that Kelly is picking her weight back up some yahoo cursed me the f*ck out. This thread people are saying much worse than that and are not being harassed like I was. Interesting lol.
She can’t blame editing because here is the thing… It was her idea but she missed the first 2 rehearsals, came late to the third rehearsal and got mad because they had things rehearsed by that point??? She comes in rehearsal #3 saying oh I want to use my person and had the nerve to show up to rehearsal #4 still without anyone??? She didn’t even call her guy until after the 4th rehearsal and even if they edited it to look that way (perhaps they played the footage out of order) it still doesn’t justify why none of her people were at the first 4 rehearsals. An idea is nothing without follow-through and she was disrespectful to waist their time like that. I’m not even going to talk about Kelly having them all show up to support her event and she don’t tell them until they are all there to support her that she isn’t even coming??? She deserves all the backlash she is getting.
Bad editing my behind. Kelly was a piece of work. Several times she lied and said you didn’t tell me when Chante did. Basically if it wasn’t her way then it was no way!