
Dr. Dre, whoâs in the middle of promoting the NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton, publicly apologized last week for abusing women in his past. His former fiancĂŠe Michelâle is not buying the apology and calls it âgood PR.â
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On Monday, Michelâle called bullshit on Dreâs apologetic statement in an interview with BBC Radio 5. âI donât really think itâs a sincere apology,â she says. âI didnât ask for a public apologyâif I asked for one at allâbut I think if heâs going to apologize, he should do it individually.â
Michelâle has been openly retelling the story of her abuse for years and says she has yet to receive a direct apology from Dre, whoâs the father of her son.
âTo just group us like weâre nothing and nobodyâI just donât think itâs sincere, thatâs all,â says Michelâle. When BBCâs male host says that Dreâs apology seems sincere (cool, dude), Michelâle responds with, âHeâs generalizing us,â and says, âTreat us like we have names.â
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To her, the apology is an obligatory PR move (âRight now heâs selling a movie. I just think itâs good PR at the moment,â she says), while the scars are indelible. (In a piece published on Gawker today, Dee Barnes, who also also spoken out about Dre, took his apology differently. âWho cares why he apologized? The point is that he did,â she wrote.)
âYou look at the wounds they leave you and you remember,â she says. âDo you know thatâs abuse? Do you know we live with that?â
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