Dee Barnes and Michel'le respond to Dr.Dre's apology for hurting women

R&B singer Michel'le and Journalist Dee Barnes are speaking out after Dr. Dre apologized to the woman that he hurt...

Aug 25, 2015

R&B singer Michel’le isn’t buying a word of Dr. Dre’s recent apology published in the New York Times, which he wrote “to the women I’ve hurt.”

Michel’le took issue with the timing as well as the wording of the so-called apology, saying, “He’s selling a movie. I just think it’s good PR at the moment.”

Dre and Michel’le dated in the late ’80s and early ’90s during the rapper’s involvement with N.W.A. Since the release of Straight Outta Compton, Michel’le has opened up about Dr. Dre often beating her up, leaving her with bruises and scars.

“I didn’t ask for a public apology and I think if he is going to apologize he should do it individually,” she added during an interview with BBC Radio.

“To just group us like we are nothing and nobody, I just don’t think it’s sincere,” she said. “Treat us like we have names.”

TV personality Dee Barnes, the second big name to be involved in the recent resurgence of public resentment toward Dr. Dre for his treatment of women, was a little more forgiving, saying, “To just group us like we are nothing and nobody, I just don’t think it’s sincere,” she said in her latest essay for Gawker. “Treat us like we have names.”

But later, she reflected a little more doubtfully, “I hope he meant it. I hope he represents these words in his life. I hope that after all these years, he really is a changed man.”

Although Barnes seemed to accept the apology, she also wondered whether or not it was a PR move in the wake of the movie Straight Outta Compton. Still, she said, “Who cares why he apologized? The point is that he did.”