“What was depicted of her is absolutely untrue and something I will never forgive,” Warwick said to PEOPLE.
Carey Kelly, who was featured in recent Lifetime docuseries Surviving R. Kelly, is the younger brother of the R&B singer. During the series, it was revealed that both Carey and the “My Body’s Callin’” crooner were molested as children, though they didn’t reveal their abuser. During an interview with Taska K of Unwine With Tasha, Carey
OWN favorite Iyanla: Fix My Life is back with all new episodes, the latest being one of the most emotionally trying of the series. Iyanla works with Keshia, who finds out her dying son has molested her youngest daughter. Keshia has responded by shutting down emotionally. Now, years later, Iyanla is here to shake the
Gary Garland-Houston revealed in new documentary, Whitney, that he and superstar sister, Whitney Houston, were molested as children by Dee Dee Warwick, the sister of Dionne Warwick. Warwick and Cissy Houston were unaware of the accusations until the film was close to wrapping production, with both of them expressing their disbelief in Gary’s claim. In
Last November, Nicki Minaj’s brother, Jelani Maraj, was found guilty of predatory sexual assault and acting in a manner injurious to a child. Maraj, 39, faces up to life in prison for the repeated rape of his stepdaughter, said to have started in their home when she was 11 while he was married to her
Before the #MeToo movement drew attention to the ubiquity of sexual assault, Iyonah Fard, 23, had already made a ripple in what’s become a nationwide push to hold sexual predators accountable. While attending a cousin’s funeral in September, the North Jersey resident was surprised to see the man she said molested her as a child. It had been 13 years since
Tiffany Haddish is riding high on success, but like all of us, she has had her share of troubles, heartaches and sorrows on the road to greatness. In her new memoir, The Last Black Unicorn, Haddish gets real about her tumultuous childhood, including being raised by an abusive mother with schizophrenia and later being thrown into
Time out! R. Kelly’s interview with HuffPost Live’s Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani has left me feeling all kinds of cray. What started out as a very simple, not incredibly engaging but not terrible dialogue between the Grammy award-winning musician and Modarressy-Tehrani, quickly evolved into a catastrophe of an interview right before our very eyes. But what did we expect. We
Vanessa Williams opened up in more detail about how she was sexually molested by a woman when she was 10 years old. The actress and former Miss America talked about the vacation with a friend's family that she says introduced her to sexual curiosity and promiscuity at a very early age. She previously recounted the
A lawyer for accused murderer George Zimmerman said yesterday that a woman who claims he molested her for years as a child was Zimmerman's cousin and said his legal team would "vigorously defend" him against the allegations. Lawyer Mark O'Mara also appeared to question why the prosecution released the woman's accusation. In a statement released
Southern Methodist University’s football death penalty is a tale of punitive lore. Once a collegiate powerhouse, the season-long ban handed down by the NCAA crippled the program in such a way that the program is still on the rebound twenty-five years later,. In the years since the scandal, the NCAA has meted out punishment for
It seems that reports of racism on the campus of Penn State University are so commonplace that it’s hard to talk about them without resorting to clichés: There truly is nothing new under the sun. They definitely don’t surprise Edward Manigo. At 53 years old, he’s the Forrest Gump of State College, Pennsylvania, popping up
“What was depicted of her is absolutely untrue and something I will never forgive,” Warwick said to PEOPLE.
Carey Kelly, who was featured in recent Lifetime docuseries Surviving R. Kelly, is the younger brother of the R&B singer. During the series, it was revealed that both Carey and the “My Body’s Callin’” crooner were molested as children, though they didn’t reveal their abuser. During an interview with Taska K of Unwine With Tasha, Carey
OWN favorite Iyanla: Fix My Life is back with all new episodes, the latest being one of the most emotionally trying of the series. Iyanla works with Keshia, who finds out her dying son has molested her youngest daughter. Keshia has responded by shutting down emotionally. Now, years later, Iyanla is here to shake the
Gary Garland-Houston revealed in new documentary, Whitney, that he and superstar sister, Whitney Houston, were molested as children by Dee Dee Warwick, the sister of Dionne Warwick. Warwick and Cissy Houston were unaware of the accusations until the film was close to wrapping production, with both of them expressing their disbelief in Gary’s claim. In
Last November, Nicki Minaj’s brother, Jelani Maraj, was found guilty of predatory sexual assault and acting in a manner injurious to a child. Maraj, 39, faces up to life in prison for the repeated rape of his stepdaughter, said to have started in their home when she was 11 while he was married to her
Before the #MeToo movement drew attention to the ubiquity of sexual assault, Iyonah Fard, 23, had already made a ripple in what’s become a nationwide push to hold sexual predators accountable. While attending a cousin’s funeral in September, the North Jersey resident was surprised to see the man she said molested her as a child. It had been 13 years since
Tiffany Haddish is riding high on success, but like all of us, she has had her share of troubles, heartaches and sorrows on the road to greatness. In her new memoir, The Last Black Unicorn, Haddish gets real about her tumultuous childhood, including being raised by an abusive mother with schizophrenia and later being thrown into
Time out! R. Kelly’s interview with HuffPost Live’s Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani has left me feeling all kinds of cray. What started out as a very simple, not incredibly engaging but not terrible dialogue between the Grammy award-winning musician and Modarressy-Tehrani, quickly evolved into a catastrophe of an interview right before our very eyes. But what did we expect. We
Vanessa Williams opened up in more detail about how she was sexually molested by a woman when she was 10 years old. The actress and former Miss America talked about the vacation with a friend's family that she says introduced her to sexual curiosity and promiscuity at a very early age. She previously recounted the
A lawyer for accused murderer George Zimmerman said yesterday that a woman who claims he molested her for years as a child was Zimmerman's cousin and said his legal team would "vigorously defend" him against the allegations. Lawyer Mark O'Mara also appeared to question why the prosecution released the woman's accusation. In a statement released
Southern Methodist University’s football death penalty is a tale of punitive lore. Once a collegiate powerhouse, the season-long ban handed down by the NCAA crippled the program in such a way that the program is still on the rebound twenty-five years later,. In the years since the scandal, the NCAA has meted out punishment for
It seems that reports of racism on the campus of Penn State University are so commonplace that it’s hard to talk about them without resorting to clichés: There truly is nothing new under the sun. They definitely don’t surprise Edward Manigo. At 53 years old, he’s the Forrest Gump of State College, Pennsylvania, popping up
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