14 DAY TRIAL // A little over a week ago, VH1 premiered a TLC biopic called “CrazySexyCool” that brought the story of one of the most successful girl bands ever back on the small screen. Executive produced by the surviving members of the band, T-Boz and Chilli, it painted their former manager Pebbles in a very negative light.
Pebbles, real name Perri Reid, is still held accountable by the two (Tionne Watkins and Rozonda Thomas) for the fact that TLC went bankrupt precisely when they were at the height of their fame, selling millions of records and landing gig after gig.
Naturally, this was made very clear in the film and, naturally, Pebbles did not take it kindly. She’s threatened on Twitter that she will sue the two singers if they don’t go on the record with the truth (and not what she considers their twisted version of it), and she’s now telling TMZ she’s expecting retractions.
We’re assuming she’s expecting them from both VH1 and the band members.
“Perri ‘Pebbles’ Reid tells us it has taken her more than a week to respond to the movie – which aired last Monday – because she was so shell-shocked by the damning lies in the film. She says, ‘This unprovoked attack has been extremely upsetting to me and my family’,” TMZ reports.
“But the real issue – she tells us, ‘CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story’ contains ‘many false and defamatory statements and scenes about me’,” the report adds.
Pebbles doesn’t say outright that she’ll be suing unless she gets the retraction but she’d already made that clear on social media, so it’s not like it would be that surprising if she did.
Meanwhile, T-Boz and Chilli insist that they were well within their rights to have her look bad in the film because this is what they remember happened: it was her fault that they went bankrupt when they were the most successful band in the world.
