Now you know at least a handful of people were going to come out of the darkness after CrazyS*xyCool: The TLC Story aired last night and say they didn’t appreciate their portrayal in the biopic. At this point, T Boz and Chilli should expect to be served with papers very soon from Pebbles. But another person who wasn’t feeling the film is, of course, original member Crystal Jones. We told you yesterday that Jones is planning to come out with a tell-all book about her short time in the group called, TLC My Story: The Awakening Of A Shattered Dream. And while she said the trailer for the movie looked “interesting” before it aired last night, now that she’s seen it, she says she wasn’t feeling it. Jones sat down with the Ryan Cameron morning show V-103 this morning to discuss her inaccurate portrayal in the film and to explain why she really didn’t get to stay in the group, and she says it had nothing to do with not being able to “sang.” Here a few tidbits from the interview:
On The Inaccuracies Of The Film:
“The movie was very inaccurate, and it brought up a lot of worms I kind of put to rest a long time ago.
One, we never auditioned for L.A. [Reid]. We auditioned for Pebbles at Seriously Sound Studio, and the song we used was a song that was produced by Jermaine Dupri called “I Got It Going On…”
Ryan Cameron: “Who was also missing from the movie.”
Pebbles: “Exactly.”
Why She Really Didn’t Get To Stay In The Group:
“As far as what happened, and I’m sure what everybody wants to know is that, it was based on the contract…We’re going through the paperwork, and it’s lengthy. So I turned to Pebbles and I said, ‘Can I take it home and let my mom take a look at it? Because I really don’t understand what I’m reading.’ And she said, ‘No absolutely not, so I didn’t sign it.'”
Jones’ manager, Ian Burke, was also reportedly present for the interview and dished some TLC history too. He claimed that he initially didn’t want Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes in the group because when she first auditioned, she came in a dress instead of baggy clothes. He said that her actual rhyming skills are what impressed him, and she went on to say that the dress wasn’t really her thing either, but that she was just trying to make a good impression. He also says that one person who didn’t get any credit in the movie was Jermaine Dupri. Burke says that he’s the one who convinced T Boz to sing in the low register we know her for. And as for Ms. Jones, she says that as for folks pretending she couldn’t sing in the audition scene of the biopic, which was used as the reason for her dismissal, that’s not true. She says that she can sing, but Jones wouldn’t perform anything for the V-103 crew when they asked her to prove it.
Once the full audio is ready to go, we’ll post it for you to hear, but so far, Jones and her manager Ian Burke definitely had some interesting things to say. What do you think of their response to the movie?
