The Breakfast Club sits down with T-Boz and she explains TLC's canceled shows, gives a health update, also share thoughts about retiring. Listen for more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wake that ass up in the morning. Breakfast Club.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Jess, Larry Charlamagne, the guy.
We are the Breakfast Club. Of course Laurna rose A
feeling in for Jess and we got a special guest
on the Zoom this morning, or I should say today,
ladies and gentlemen, we have tea bars. Welcome. How are
you feeling?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I am feeling great, Thank you. I know everybody's like,
how can she know I feel good? Though I did
just get out of the hospital three days ago. Though.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yeah, you know, we've been hearing all the news about
you know, I guess I don't know if you call
it a health scare health issue, so you.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Know, honestly, I would have never told nobody, and I
hate people being in my business. There's plenty of times
I've been in the hospital for sickle cell and I
don't tell because I don't like all this attention. Although
I do want to say thank you for all those
who have prayed for me. And you know, oh, oh,
I almost dropping my phone. Sorry asked about me. I
appreciate that, but uh, I just wanted to clarify sense
(00:59):
it was out there. I guess they had to tell
people because I missed shows for insurance reasons and the
promoter and stuff like that. I just think it was
a little bit tea detailed and then now not enough details.
So what happened to me can happen to anyone. What
happened was I was feeling totally fine. I had got
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to Syracuse, New York. Off the plane, I ate something,
so that's why I thought I had food poisoning. My
stomach felt like if the Incredible Hawk took it and
just said hope, smash, like it was.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
A variable thing.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
It was like I couldn't stand up, I couldn't talk,
I couldn't walk. And when the doctor came to see
me to prove that I was sick, he immediately was like,
she has to go in and admit her. I got
there and they was talking about going on the surgery side.
I'm like, oh up, wait a minute. What So what
happened was is I had a C section twenty four
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years ago. So this can happen to any man who
has had abdominal surgery, any woman who has had a
c section or five or assists removal, anything done to
your domino that causes adhesions, which is scar tissue, so
your small intestines move around. And it had nothing to
do with constipation. No, I'm not on a zempic. No,
it had nothing to do with sickle cell. It was
(02:18):
just merely scar tissue hit my lower intestine and kinked
it and blocked it off. Wow, and it moved and
healed itself and unkinked. That's how easy it was. But
this is something people die from. It's very serious. Some
people have to have some of their colon or intestines
removed or scar tissue, and many have died from this.
(02:41):
It's not diverticulitis. I seen a lot of people trying
to diagnose me. You know what I'm saying. Everybody was
a doctor all of a sudden. But yeah, so I said, so, well,
since my business is out there, let me turn this
into an educational thing and let people know this is
really a thing, because I had no idea. The doctor said,
he's had eight year old who have fifty year old surgeries,
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and this can happen. It can happen to anyone at
any time, and then most cases it heals itself like
mine did. And I'm three days out, I'm already working again.
I leave Friday for my next show. Ready already, I'm
back up and at them. There's no pains right now
or anything like that, Like you're not in pain, nothing,
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nothing at all. I'm eating normal diet. The first three
days were testing. They put me on ivy fluid payments,
a medication called Bentos for stomach spasms, because that's what
what hurts so bad, is the vomiting and the spasms.
It was like ten times more than a childbirth contractions, right,
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And I can't even That's why I said, I have
to say hoaxmas, because that's the only thing I could
think of. Somebody strong just ripping your stomach like that.
And I never knew that your stomach could even hurt
hurt like that, you know. But what was disheartening to
me was just like reading some of the jokes and stuff,
Oh she just needed the poop, y'all. Nothing's funny about
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people fighting for their life or having surgery. Other loved
ones have died from this. Nothing's funny about people's health.
And I just also it irritates me that anything that
happens to me, it's like, oh, you know, she got
them simple sales. No, I'm tea on Watkins. I just
happen to have a disease, but it's not who I
am and all that I am and everything not associated
(04:30):
with sickle cell. Everybody, That's what I mean, That's what
I thought.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
I didn't express that, but I just said to myself,
I just assumed it was the sickle cell. But I'm
sure when you first started feeling ill, you know your
body and you've experienced sickle cell before, so you knew
immediately this was something different.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, it was something different with sickle cell. I can't
even tell y'all like I just got out of the
hospital of the week before last from a crisis. Like people,
I don't share this at all. I keep my private
private because I don't even like all this attention. I
don't you know what I'm saying, And I never tell
when I'm in the hospital. If y'all knew how many
times I've been there, shit, we'd be having these interviews
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every year, every other month, you know what I mean.
Because there's no cure and I still deal with it.
But I just want to clarify that every time somebody
hears something about me, they just instantly think it's my
sickle tell and that's just not true. I just want
people to know this can happen to all y'all, like
any and everybody. Like this happens to men all the time.
(05:29):
I know a couple of men who have died from it. Yeah,
this happens. I just never knew it could happen from adhesions.
You know from.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I seen you clapping back a lot. Did you feel
like you had to answer these people? I've seen people
saying that the kid the show should be canceled, you
should leave the group. But you were clapping back like
it really bothered you what people were actually saying about you.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Yeah, that's good, you to tell me to quit my
damn job. Like life is life, Life comes with stuff
like life ain't easy. But you don't never hear me complain.
I don't get on stage and say I just came
from the ambulance. I did our HBO special straight from
the ambulance out the hospital, went right back. But you
ain't never heard me complain. I ain't never said nothing.
You know what I'm saying. But if you work hard
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for something and you like what you do, who are
you to tell me to stop? My stomach issue didn't
have anything with me stopping my career. I'm not stopping
Chili from going on doing what she wants to do
solo or anybody else. You know what I'm saying. It's
not stopping anything for anybody but me, and if I
am okay, I'm not stupid. I'm not gonna go out
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there and kill myself for no one and know nothing.
That's why the show was canceled because I knew better
I can't do it. I know how to say I
can't do it, but I love performing. It's in my
heart to send my soul. I'm gonna do it. But
when it's time to stop, then I'll stop. Then I
will stop. You know what I'm saying. But I know
what my body can do, and I know what I
can't do, and anything you want in life, the way
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I look at it, I was dealt these cars. I
was born this way, so I don't know any different.
So for me, I knew I had to do and
go the extra mile to do what I want to do.
But this is what I want, so then I do that.
That's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna do that because
this is what I want to do, and this is
what I chose So, okay, I do a lot more
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than your average artists to get up there. But I
chose this life and and that's something I knew that
I would have to deal with. But when it's time
for me to send my black mind down, trust me,
I do. I do.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
So you're going back out on the road that you
said Friday This Friday Friday.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I'm not on tour though, y'all. I'm just doing spot date?
Got you? So?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Do you guys have an idea?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Okay, I'm sorry, no, I'm just saying these are spot dates.
I do a couple and come right back. Got you?
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Do you guys have an idea of when the Connecticut
and the Syracuse show will be rescheduled?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
It's October. I just rescheduled one today, October twenty fifth.
So don't hold me to that. You know, things happen,
but that's what we're talking about. And I just lokat
did today tea boss? We've grown as hell? Now?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Is it harder to toil as you get older? Do
you want to even leave a house?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
You see us a child? It's hard for everybody. Hell,
everybody out here get hurt, you know what I'm saying.
So the average person. Touring is hard, like don't you
ain't gotta have a disease to take a break or
get an injury. It's hard out here. My dances be
broke down at twenty, you know what I'm saying. So no,
(08:32):
I ain't gonna lie like, yeah, things are harder. That's
why I'm gearing up to retire probably next year. It
would be my last. So if y'all want to come
to CTC, I suggest you do it now because I'm
not gonna be doing this much longer because I am
fifty four, but I'm blessed. I was told I wouldn't
live till I wouldn't live past thirty. I'm fifty four.
It's still on stage, selling at arenas, in the stadiums,
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like come on, man, traveling the world. This is like
a dream and something that I prayed for and God
gave it to me. So when God and my body
says the time to stop, that I will stop. I
ain't crazy, like you know what I'm saying. So I'm
not gonna kill myself doing this. You know, and I
don't dance as much as I used to. I want
to put that out there, like I know you only
(09:15):
dropped down just a little bit. Yeah, I feel got it.
I ain't Eddie Kine in it, you know, like nights
like this, I ain't out here.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
But how did you know it was time to retire?
You just said the word retired, and it kind of
made my heart drop a little bit. Touring got you.
You gotta clare, okay, because when you said that, I
was like.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Oh, wait, no, I ain't going nowhere. We're gonna be
doing other things. But retired from touring because it is
hard on your body, and because I have simple sell
I don't want to when it's time to spend time
with my children, I don't want to, you know, be
like broke down Benny, you know, tow it from the
flow up. No, So I'm gonna stop and and do
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other things. I can spend more time with my children
and stuff like that, you know what I'm saying. So
I'm gonna do the rest. I have learned how to
pace myself on stage.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
What did your children say? What does your doing? I
know you have a twenty two or twenty three year old,
so she knows what it is. What does she say
that she say? Mama, sit your ass down?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
What is your day? Mom? Don't go on no more tours,
forget all that you gave your life to these people.
Stop thirty two years. So I said, you know what,
You're right. I have thirty two years I've given to y'all.
I'm done. I just want to end it the right way,
kind of like how Michael Jordan went out. I gave
it to you, and I want to bow out gracefully
the right way, that's all. So I want to do, like,
(10:34):
you know, a bye bye and thank you for you know,
this lovely career and your support, and then you'll see
me doing other things. But just you know, it is
hard on my body. I have a tor moniscus that
I've had a bad need for like twenty something years,
and I'm gonna finally go ahead and have surgery on.
I kept juicing it up with steroids, but it's really
(10:55):
doing more damage because you know, you can't fill the damage.
But it's so I think that, you know, I write
movie scripts, I executive produce movies. I produce, you know,
So I want to get into some of my other
passions and I'll probably come out with some more music.
But just dancing all over the place, it took a
(11:16):
lot and I'm not gonna lie because I'm a dancer
by heart. It took a lot from me to learn
how to pace myself on stage because I see somebody
and I'm competitive. I want to go get it, you
know what I'm saying. I'm like, are you trying? Me?
Are trying? You know? So I want to just dance.
But everybody will tell y'all take it easy because I don't
have nothing to prove. Everybody know I could dance and
(11:36):
you can't lose that. I hate when people be like,
she still got a girl. I'm never gonna lose. I'm
always have that, and that's my body just gonna allow. Huh.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Dance is harder to do right now, to creep dance
or the waterfall dance.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Neither one those are easy. As I'll get out. I
could do that in my sleep out the hospital bed
while I'm having a sickle cell crisis. The ones that
are hard are the ones that you're down on your
knees and stuff like that. Only because my right me,
my my left me. I can still get down there now,
you know. But my right knee is just torn from
all the damage. It's just like being an athlete. It's
wear and tear.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
You know, I wanted to know. You know, you're saying
that you might retire and it's almost so as far
as touring is concerned. Do you feel like TC gets
the credit and everything that they deserve for as much
as you guys have done and how you've changed the game,
the sex talk that you guys have, you know, started
in those conversations, you feel like you get the respect
and you know, just do that you guys deserve.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I'm the older audience who knows. But from the youngsters,
they have no idea, you know what I'm saying. I mean,
but you know I don't. I don't look for praise.
I know what I do. But I did a glad
commercial recently, you know, and you know, a product deal,
and in our world that's a big deal. You know
what I'm saying. It's just funny. The TikTokers thought differently.
(12:52):
They thought it was I was embarrassing myself. They said, uh,
it was as bad as when Mary did Burger King,
like what I committed. Like, but anybody who got common
sense knows that that's a billion dollar company. Dummy, right,
you're crazy, and that that check for that thirty huh No,
It's okay that that check for that uh like thirty
(13:14):
you know, second little dance is good boo boo. And
I'm not doing it for the money. But it's Glad.
Don't we all have Glad and Chlorox in our house.
Don't you use trash bags? Ain't nothing wrong with that.
That's a great thing. From where we're from, we all
try to get product deals. I wish I could have
got him earlier on, so you're gonna see me doing
more product Funny, how.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Do you choose?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Is there a part of you that feels like you
you you might be trying to make up for lost
time because of all the money y'all didn't make.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
When you No, because you know, everything happens for a reason.
I'm not making up for lost time. I'm just doing
what makes sense, you know what I'm saying. I really
do use Glad trash bags, and and I have a
whole bunch of Clorox products in my house. And I've
always wanted a brand deal. That's a big deal, you
know what I'm saying. I used to look at Ludacris
and other people like, oh he gotta chase think commercial,
(14:03):
Oh he gotta you know what I mean, that's like
major and and children don't know that, you know what
I'm saying. They don't understand business. And I also don't
like when people go, oh, it's just TC now, when
you work hard for something and you bought your name
a million dollars per letter, honey, and you work for
that name, whether she's physically here or not, we will
always be and I will always have that name TLC
(14:25):
because it belongs to us, and we own it a
million dollar per letter, a million dollars per letter. The
honey to buy back the name TLC from me, from
you know, from him, we ain't gonna.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Don't you say it, don't you know it.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Was I didn't know people trying to take the l
out of it. I've never seen anybody do that.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
It's just the it's just the youngsters.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
It's kind of sad.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
It's like who's raised y'all, Like my kids don't think
like that. It's just I'm really baffled like by some
of these comments, like because usually it like comas, don't
bother me, y'all to say what you won't like, you
don't hinder my day one way or the other. It's
just sad because it's our culture, it's our you know,
(15:15):
our our future that's talking here, and they're like cuckoo
for Coco Pops and they have no common sense and
it's embarrassing. I'm embarrassing myself. No, you're embarrassing yourself, sweetie.
You have no idea.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Niggas retard to t boss. Listen, let me tell you something.
I got my little niece, I call it my niece, Nyla.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Nyla is what twenty eight twenty nine.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
She lovesoc I mean, she swears by y'all, and she's
like one of the most popping DJs out here right now.
So I think you got to give yourself a little
bit more credit when it comes to that young generation
because they really do.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Uh, you're right, You're right. So it's not everybody, it's
just I think it's just ones on social media. It
wasn't even Instagram or Twitter. It was just the TikTokers.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
I don't know, you know, but I'm not gonna let
nobody take something great and turn its sour. Like you know,
I'm out here having fun. Sean Bankhead choreographed it. He's
doing like Victoria Monet, and everybody out here is popping,
so everybody, a lot of high end people were involved,
you know what I'm saying. And then people be saying
stuff like, you know, it cracks me up if some
(16:21):
people talk about I look at them talking about other
artists being washed up, but if they were washed up,
they couldn't even get that job. People like it's just
so like embarrassing that they're typing is just y' y'all
should think before or do research before y'all be talking
like it's just. But ultimately, I get more love than
anything you already.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Got that you've never seen any of the stuff that
you're saying, like it's I and only reasons I'm looking
at that because I mean to me and anybody I know,
it's like what TFC is.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Like, right, thank you. I get a lot of love.
I will say that. And I only seen this recently
because I had to look at it to give them stats,
and I was just like surprised. I was like what
WHOA Like, you know, I was shocked, but I was like,
what do you say? I just kind of laughed because
some of it was kind of funny, but I like,
it's also when you think about its sad. I'm like
(17:12):
this is what my son has to look up to. Hey,
can you let her out please? From the coach my
son has to look forward.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
To, you know, I said, from the coach one intended.
It feels like TLC has always just got intend to
love and care like I've never heard bad.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Really. Yeah, the people that A dressed up for TLC
as Halloween shows the amount of love that you guys get.
Like it's two and that's what she's doing, the hundred
little babies and doing that this year for Halloween.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
So it's people.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Are they still love you? Love the music and all that.
So a couple ADs' not gonna let it bother you?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
No, I won't, I won't. I was just surprised. But no,
we do get love and we have like two year
olds just like generations at the concert. It'd be like
the grandma their child. I've watched my fans grow up,
get married, have kids. Now some of their kids have kids.
I'm like, dang, girl, you get old because you're watching
babies have babies have babies.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
You know.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
But I love the Halloween time like because it baffles
me how many two year olds know our lyrics and stuff,
like they sing baby baby Baby No scrubs. I'm pretty.
My niece I just bought her on stage. She's five,
and she sang, I'm pretty with me, and she was
up there like a little star singing everything. Well.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
For the record, for the youngsters that don't know, TLC
is the best selling American girl group of all time
and the second best selling female girl group in the world.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Behind So don't get fucked up.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Thank you, we got feeling good. Uh. I know that.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I know that you never discussed your health stuff like
you said, and you've been dealing with all these forever,
so sing I'm sorry that you have to be out
here explaining this.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
No, thank you for giving me the platform to do it.
I just thought, like, you know, since it's out there,
why don't I share this with women? Because I was
sitting there baffled myself, like I might have to have surgery?
What this is the thing? I never even knew this
could happen or existed. So since it's out there, I
was like, well, let me just let people know, you know,
everything and what it really was. Because the jokes, I
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just think people are just so insensitive. I don't know
if it's the video games or the violence and movies
people are so desensitized because I'm like, people's loved ones
can die from this, and it's just not funny, you know.
I'll just tell her to go poop. That's not funny.
That's not funny. And there were no warning signs out
before you start. I flew to Syracuse. I was feeling fine, dancing, singing,
(19:44):
acting silly like I always do. And then next thing
you know, I just got a cramp and I got
off the phone with my friend, like on my stomach
curs and then next thing you know, they're every two
to three minutes apart, and I'm like, I remember it
being two thirty, laying in a f the position, vomiting
like twelve times, and literally it was like eight something
(20:05):
by time I looked up, like I didn't even know,
like I was in so much pain. It was light,
and then it's dark and it's hours later and I'm
not even aware, you know, and they're taking me to
the hospital and met me immediately and talking about surgery.
I'm like, whoa, but I didn't have to have surgery.
And I'm eating normal, no pains at all, like it
never happens, and everything's just fine. And that was baffling
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to me from how much pain I was in. I
was like, because I like asking can I eat? And
he was like, honey, it has to do with the
outside of your intestines, not the inside. And I'm like,
whoa you know? So that was huh is it called again?
It's called an abdominal obstruction. Okay, yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
And breaking us down. We really appreciate you checking in,
We really do. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Thank you too, and thank you for letting me know
the love is still.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
There always, absolutely well.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
It's teams, It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, wake till.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Ass up in the morning for Breakfast Club
Speaker 2 (21:10):
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Wake that ass up in the morning. Breakfast Club.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Jess, Larry Charlamagne, the guy.
We are the Breakfast Club. Of course Laurna rose A
feeling in for Jess and we got a special guest
on the Zoom this morning, or I should say today,
ladies and gentlemen, we have tea bars. Welcome. How are
you feeling?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I am feeling great, Thank you. I know everybody's like,
how can she know I feel good? Though I did
just get out of the hospital three days ago. Though.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yeah, you know, we've been hearing all the news about
you know, I guess I don't know if you call
it a health scare health issue, so you.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Know, honestly, I would have never told nobody, and I
hate people being in my business. There's plenty of times
I've been in the hospital for sickle cell and I
don't tell because I don't like all this attention. Although
I do want to say thank you for all those
who have prayed for me. And you know, oh, oh,
I almost dropping my phone. Sorry asked about me. I
appreciate that, but uh, I just wanted to clarify sense
(00:59):
it was out there. I guess they had to tell
people because I missed shows for insurance reasons and the
promoter and stuff like that. I just think it was
a little bit tea detailed and then now not enough details.
So what happened to me can happen to anyone. What
happened was I was feeling totally fine. I had got
(01:23):
to Syracuse, New York. Off the plane, I ate something,
so that's why I thought I had food poisoning. My
stomach felt like if the Incredible Hawk took it and
just said hope, smash, like it was.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
A variable thing.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
It was like I couldn't stand up, I couldn't talk,
I couldn't walk. And when the doctor came to see
me to prove that I was sick, he immediately was like,
she has to go in and admit her. I got
there and they was talking about going on the surgery side.
I'm like, oh up, wait a minute. What So what
happened was is I had a C section twenty four
(01:55):
years ago. So this can happen to any man who
has had abdominal surgery, any woman who has had a
c section or five or assists removal, anything done to
your domino that causes adhesions, which is scar tissue, so
your small intestines move around. And it had nothing to
do with constipation. No, I'm not on a zempic. No,
it had nothing to do with sickle cell. It was
(02:18):
just merely scar tissue hit my lower intestine and kinked
it and blocked it off. Wow, and it moved and
healed itself and unkinked. That's how easy it was. But
this is something people die from. It's very serious. Some
people have to have some of their colon or intestines
removed or scar tissue, and many have died from this.
(02:41):
It's not diverticulitis. I seen a lot of people trying
to diagnose me. You know what I'm saying. Everybody was
a doctor all of a sudden. But yeah, so I said, so, well,
since my business is out there, let me turn this
into an educational thing and let people know this is
really a thing, because I had no idea. The doctor said,
he's had eight year old who have fifty year old surgeries,
(03:01):
and this can happen. It can happen to anyone at
any time, and then most cases it heals itself like
mine did. And I'm three days out, I'm already working again.
I leave Friday for my next show. Ready already, I'm
back up and at them. There's no pains right now
or anything like that, Like you're not in pain, nothing,
(03:23):
nothing at all. I'm eating normal diet. The first three
days were testing. They put me on ivy fluid payments,
a medication called Bentos for stomach spasms, because that's what
what hurts so bad, is the vomiting and the spasms.
It was like ten times more than a childbirth contractions, right,
(03:48):
And I can't even That's why I said, I have
to say hoaxmas, because that's the only thing I could
think of. Somebody strong just ripping your stomach like that.
And I never knew that your stomach could even hurt
hurt like that, you know. But what was disheartening to
me was just like reading some of the jokes and stuff,
Oh she just needed the poop, y'all. Nothing's funny about
(04:08):
people fighting for their life or having surgery. Other loved
ones have died from this. Nothing's funny about people's health.
And I just also it irritates me that anything that
happens to me, it's like, oh, you know, she got
them simple sales. No, I'm tea on Watkins. I just
happen to have a disease, but it's not who I
am and all that I am and everything not associated
(04:30):
with sickle cell. Everybody, That's what I mean, That's what
I thought.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
I didn't express that, but I just said to myself,
I just assumed it was the sickle cell. But I'm
sure when you first started feeling ill, you know your
body and you've experienced sickle cell before, so you knew
immediately this was something different.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, it was something different with sickle cell. I can't
even tell y'all like I just got out of the
hospital of the week before last from a crisis. Like people,
I don't share this at all. I keep my private
private because I don't even like all this attention. I
don't you know what I'm saying, And I never tell
when I'm in the hospital. If y'all knew how many
times I've been there, shit, we'd be having these interviews
(05:09):
every year, every other month, you know what I mean.
Because there's no cure and I still deal with it.
But I just want to clarify that every time somebody
hears something about me, they just instantly think it's my
sickle tell and that's just not true. I just want
people to know this can happen to all y'all, like
any and everybody. Like this happens to men all the time.
(05:29):
I know a couple of men who have died from it. Yeah,
this happens. I just never knew it could happen from adhesions.
You know from.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I seen you clapping back a lot. Did you feel
like you had to answer these people? I've seen people
saying that the kid the show should be canceled, you
should leave the group. But you were clapping back like
it really bothered you what people were actually saying about you.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Yeah, that's good, you to tell me to quit my
damn job. Like life is life, Life comes with stuff
like life ain't easy. But you don't never hear me complain.
I don't get on stage and say I just came
from the ambulance. I did our HBO special straight from
the ambulance out the hospital, went right back. But you
ain't never heard me complain. I ain't never said nothing.
You know what I'm saying. But if you work hard
(06:12):
for something and you like what you do, who are
you to tell me to stop? My stomach issue didn't
have anything with me stopping my career. I'm not stopping
Chili from going on doing what she wants to do
solo or anybody else. You know what I'm saying. It's
not stopping anything for anybody but me, and if I
am okay, I'm not stupid. I'm not gonna go out
(06:34):
there and kill myself for no one and know nothing.
That's why the show was canceled because I knew better
I can't do it. I know how to say I
can't do it, but I love performing. It's in my
heart to send my soul. I'm gonna do it. But
when it's time to stop, then I'll stop. Then I
will stop. You know what I'm saying. But I know
what my body can do, and I know what I
can't do, and anything you want in life, the way
(06:56):
I look at it, I was dealt these cars. I
was born this way, so I don't know any different.
So for me, I knew I had to do and
go the extra mile to do what I want to do.
But this is what I want, so then I do that.
That's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna do that because
this is what I want to do, and this is
what I chose So, okay, I do a lot more
(07:16):
than your average artists to get up there. But I
chose this life and and that's something I knew that
I would have to deal with. But when it's time
for me to send my black mind down, trust me,
I do. I do.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
So you're going back out on the road that you
said Friday This Friday Friday.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I'm not on tour though, y'all. I'm just doing spot date?
Got you? So?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Do you guys have an idea?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Okay, I'm sorry, no, I'm just saying these are spot dates.
I do a couple and come right back. Got you?
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Do you guys have an idea of when the Connecticut
and the Syracuse show will be rescheduled?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
It's October. I just rescheduled one today, October twenty fifth.
So don't hold me to that. You know, things happen,
but that's what we're talking about. And I just lokat
did today tea boss? We've grown as hell? Now?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Is it harder to toil as you get older? Do
you want to even leave a house?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
You see us a child? It's hard for everybody. Hell,
everybody out here get hurt, you know what I'm saying.
So the average person. Touring is hard, like don't you
ain't gotta have a disease to take a break or
get an injury. It's hard out here. My dances be
broke down at twenty, you know what I'm saying. So no,
(08:32):
I ain't gonna lie like, yeah, things are harder. That's
why I'm gearing up to retire probably next year. It
would be my last. So if y'all want to come
to CTC, I suggest you do it now because I'm
not gonna be doing this much longer because I am
fifty four, but I'm blessed. I was told I wouldn't
live till I wouldn't live past thirty. I'm fifty four.
It's still on stage, selling at arenas, in the stadiums,
(08:53):
like come on, man, traveling the world. This is like
a dream and something that I prayed for and God
gave it to me. So when God and my body
says the time to stop, that I will stop. I
ain't crazy, like you know what I'm saying. So I'm
not gonna kill myself doing this. You know, and I
don't dance as much as I used to. I want
to put that out there, like I know you only
(09:15):
dropped down just a little bit. Yeah, I feel got it.
I ain't Eddie Kine in it, you know, like nights
like this, I ain't out here.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
But how did you know it was time to retire?
You just said the word retired, and it kind of
made my heart drop a little bit. Touring got you.
You gotta clare, okay, because when you said that, I
was like.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Oh, wait, no, I ain't going nowhere. We're gonna be
doing other things. But retired from touring because it is
hard on your body, and because I have simple sell
I don't want to when it's time to spend time
with my children, I don't want to, you know, be
like broke down Benny, you know, tow it from the
flow up. No, So I'm gonna stop and and do
(09:57):
other things. I can spend more time with my children
and stuff like that, you know what I'm saying. So
I'm gonna do the rest. I have learned how to
pace myself on stage.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
What did your children say? What does your doing? I
know you have a twenty two or twenty three year old,
so she knows what it is. What does she say
that she say? Mama, sit your ass down?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
What is your day? Mom? Don't go on no more tours,
forget all that you gave your life to these people.
Stop thirty two years. So I said, you know what,
You're right. I have thirty two years I've given to y'all.
I'm done. I just want to end it the right way,
kind of like how Michael Jordan went out. I gave
it to you, and I want to bow out gracefully
the right way, that's all. So I want to do, like,
(10:34):
you know, a bye bye and thank you for you know,
this lovely career and your support, and then you'll see
me doing other things. But just you know, it is
hard on my body. I have a tor moniscus that
I've had a bad need for like twenty something years,
and I'm gonna finally go ahead and have surgery on.
I kept juicing it up with steroids, but it's really
(10:55):
doing more damage because you know, you can't fill the damage.
But it's so I think that, you know, I write
movie scripts, I executive produce movies. I produce, you know,
So I want to get into some of my other
passions and I'll probably come out with some more music.
But just dancing all over the place, it took a
(11:16):
lot and I'm not gonna lie because I'm a dancer
by heart. It took a lot from me to learn
how to pace myself on stage because I see somebody
and I'm competitive. I want to go get it, you
know what I'm saying. I'm like, are you trying? Me?
Are trying? You know? So I want to just dance.
But everybody will tell y'all take it easy because I don't
have nothing to prove. Everybody know I could dance and
(11:36):
you can't lose that. I hate when people be like,
she still got a girl. I'm never gonna lose. I'm
always have that, and that's my body just gonna allow. Huh.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Dance is harder to do right now, to creep dance
or the waterfall dance.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Neither one those are easy. As I'll get out. I
could do that in my sleep out the hospital bed
while I'm having a sickle cell crisis. The ones that
are hard are the ones that you're down on your
knees and stuff like that. Only because my right me,
my my left me. I can still get down there now,
you know. But my right knee is just torn from
all the damage. It's just like being an athlete. It's
wear and tear.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
You know, I wanted to know. You know, you're saying
that you might retire and it's almost so as far
as touring is concerned. Do you feel like TC gets
the credit and everything that they deserve for as much
as you guys have done and how you've changed the game,
the sex talk that you guys have, you know, started
in those conversations, you feel like you get the respect
and you know, just do that you guys deserve.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I'm the older audience who knows. But from the youngsters,
they have no idea, you know what I'm saying. I mean,
but you know I don't. I don't look for praise.
I know what I do. But I did a glad
commercial recently, you know, and you know, a product deal,
and in our world that's a big deal. You know
what I'm saying. It's just funny. The TikTokers thought differently.
(12:52):
They thought it was I was embarrassing myself. They said, uh,
it was as bad as when Mary did Burger King,
like what I committed. Like, but anybody who got common
sense knows that that's a billion dollar company. Dummy, right,
you're crazy, and that that check for that thirty huh No,
It's okay that that check for that uh like thirty
(13:14):
you know, second little dance is good boo boo. And
I'm not doing it for the money. But it's Glad.
Don't we all have Glad and Chlorox in our house.
Don't you use trash bags? Ain't nothing wrong with that.
That's a great thing. From where we're from, we all
try to get product deals. I wish I could have
got him earlier on, so you're gonna see me doing
more product Funny, how.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Do you choose?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Is there a part of you that feels like you
you you might be trying to make up for lost
time because of all the money y'all didn't make.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
When you No, because you know, everything happens for a reason.
I'm not making up for lost time. I'm just doing
what makes sense, you know what I'm saying. I really
do use Glad trash bags, and and I have a
whole bunch of Clorox products in my house. And I've
always wanted a brand deal. That's a big deal, you
know what I'm saying. I used to look at Ludacris
and other people like, oh he gotta chase think commercial,
(14:03):
Oh he gotta you know what I mean, that's like
major and and children don't know that, you know what
I'm saying. They don't understand business. And I also don't
like when people go, oh, it's just TC now, when
you work hard for something and you bought your name
a million dollars per letter, honey, and you work for
that name, whether she's physically here or not, we will
always be and I will always have that name TLC
(14:25):
because it belongs to us, and we own it a
million dollar per letter, a million dollars per letter. The
honey to buy back the name TLC from me, from
you know, from him, we ain't gonna.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Don't you say it, don't you know it.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Was I didn't know people trying to take the l
out of it. I've never seen anybody do that.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
It's just the it's just the youngsters.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
It's kind of sad.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
It's like who's raised y'all, Like my kids don't think
like that. It's just I'm really baffled like by some
of these comments, like because usually it like comas, don't
bother me, y'all to say what you won't like, you
don't hinder my day one way or the other. It's
just sad because it's our culture, it's our you know,
(15:15):
our our future that's talking here, and they're like cuckoo
for Coco Pops and they have no common sense and
it's embarrassing. I'm embarrassing myself. No, you're embarrassing yourself, sweetie.
You have no idea.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Niggas retard to t boss. Listen, let me tell you something.
I got my little niece, I call it my niece, Nyla.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Nyla is what twenty eight twenty nine.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
She lovesoc I mean, she swears by y'all, and she's
like one of the most popping DJs out here right now.
So I think you got to give yourself a little
bit more credit when it comes to that young generation
because they really do.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Uh, you're right, You're right. So it's not everybody, it's
just I think it's just ones on social media. It
wasn't even Instagram or Twitter. It was just the TikTokers.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
I don't know, you know, but I'm not gonna let
nobody take something great and turn its sour. Like you know,
I'm out here having fun. Sean Bankhead choreographed it. He's
doing like Victoria Monet, and everybody out here is popping,
so everybody, a lot of high end people were involved,
you know what I'm saying. And then people be saying
stuff like, you know, it cracks me up if some
(16:21):
people talk about I look at them talking about other
artists being washed up, but if they were washed up,
they couldn't even get that job. People like it's just
so like embarrassing that they're typing is just y' y'all
should think before or do research before y'all be talking
like it's just. But ultimately, I get more love than
anything you already.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Got that you've never seen any of the stuff that
you're saying, like it's I and only reasons I'm looking
at that because I mean to me and anybody I know,
it's like what TFC is.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Like, right, thank you. I get a lot of love.
I will say that. And I only seen this recently
because I had to look at it to give them stats,
and I was just like surprised. I was like what
WHOA Like, you know, I was shocked, but I was like,
what do you say? I just kind of laughed because
some of it was kind of funny, but I like,
it's also when you think about its sad. I'm like
(17:12):
this is what my son has to look up to. Hey,
can you let her out please? From the coach my
son has to look forward.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
To, you know, I said, from the coach one intended.
It feels like TLC has always just got intend to
love and care like I've never heard bad.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Really. Yeah, the people that A dressed up for TLC
as Halloween shows the amount of love that you guys get.
Like it's two and that's what she's doing, the hundred
little babies and doing that this year for Halloween.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
So it's people.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Are they still love you? Love the music and all that.
So a couple ADs' not gonna let it bother you?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
No, I won't, I won't. I was just surprised. But no,
we do get love and we have like two year
olds just like generations at the concert. It'd be like
the grandma their child. I've watched my fans grow up,
get married, have kids. Now some of their kids have kids.
I'm like, dang, girl, you get old because you're watching
babies have babies have babies.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
You know.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
But I love the Halloween time like because it baffles
me how many two year olds know our lyrics and stuff,
like they sing baby baby Baby No scrubs. I'm pretty.
My niece I just bought her on stage. She's five,
and she sang, I'm pretty with me, and she was
up there like a little star singing everything. Well.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
For the record, for the youngsters that don't know, TLC
is the best selling American girl group of all time
and the second best selling female girl group in the world.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Behind So don't get fucked up.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Thank you, we got feeling good. Uh. I know that.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I know that you never discussed your health stuff like
you said, and you've been dealing with all these forever,
so sing I'm sorry that you have to be out
here explaining this.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
No, thank you for giving me the platform to do it.
I just thought, like, you know, since it's out there,
why don't I share this with women? Because I was
sitting there baffled myself, like I might have to have surgery?
What this is the thing? I never even knew this
could happen or existed. So since it's out there, I
was like, well, let me just let people know, you know,
everything and what it really was. Because the jokes, I
(19:20):
just think people are just so insensitive. I don't know
if it's the video games or the violence and movies
people are so desensitized because I'm like, people's loved ones
can die from this, and it's just not funny, you know.
I'll just tell her to go poop. That's not funny.
That's not funny. And there were no warning signs out
before you start. I flew to Syracuse. I was feeling fine, dancing, singing,
(19:44):
acting silly like I always do. And then next thing
you know, I just got a cramp and I got
off the phone with my friend, like on my stomach
curs and then next thing you know, they're every two
to three minutes apart, and I'm like, I remember it
being two thirty, laying in a f the position, vomiting
like twelve times, and literally it was like eight something
(20:05):
by time I looked up, like I didn't even know,
like I was in so much pain. It was light,
and then it's dark and it's hours later and I'm
not even aware, you know, and they're taking me to
the hospital and met me immediately and talking about surgery.
I'm like, whoa, but I didn't have to have surgery.
And I'm eating normal, no pains at all, like it
never happens, and everything's just fine. And that was baffling
(20:28):
to me from how much pain I was in. I
was like, because I like asking can I eat? And
he was like, honey, it has to do with the
outside of your intestines, not the inside. And I'm like,
whoa you know? So that was huh is it called again?
It's called an abdominal obstruction. Okay, yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
And breaking us down. We really appreciate you checking in,
We really do. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Thank you too, and thank you for letting me know
the love is still.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
There always, absolutely well.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
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