Following the massive success of 'Straight Outta Compton' during its launching week, garnering a total of $56.1 million in sales at the box office, Dr. Dre's exes are speaking up about a few issues in the biopic film and letting their voices be heard.
Dr. Dre's former partners, Michel'le Toussaint and Dee Barnes, are criticizing the movie, claiming that it has failed to recognize their abusive past relationships with the now-billionaire rapper and record producer.
The R&B singer from the 90's and Dr. Dre's former fiancée, Michel'le Toussaint, has openly talked about her past relationship with the rapper during a one-on-one interview with the VladTV.
She said that both of them did not deny that he was an abusive partner during their six-year relationship, and she was surprised why that aspect wasn't shown in the film.
"Why would Dr. Dre put me in it? If they start from where they start from. I was just a quiet girlfriend who got beat up and told to sit down and shut up." she added.
Dee Barnes on her take, who had more to say about her ex-boyfriend, wrote a guest article about the movie, which detailed her bad experiences with Dr. Dre.
Upon taking the footage of the California Patrol officer, Daniel Andrew beating Marlen Pinnock in 2014 as her example, she wrote "That must have been how it looked as Dr. Dre straddled me and beat me mercilessly on the floor of the women's restroom at the Po Na Na Souk nightclub in 1991.
However, Barnes is not shading the film for not including what Michel'le believes must be shown, as she sees their experiences to be "too ugly" for the audiences.
"That event isn't depicted in 'Straight Outta Compton', but I don't think it should have been, either," she wrote. "The truth is too ugly for a general audience. I didn't want to see a depiction of me getting beat up."
However, setting aside the entire incident and focusing on the film itself, it looked like it didn't sit well with her expectations.
"But what should have been addressed is that it occurred. When I was sitting there in the theatre, and the movie's timeline skipped by my attack without a glance, I was like, 'Uhhh, what happened?' Like many of the women that knew and worked with N.W.A, I found myself a casualty of Straight Outta Compton's revisionist history," she wrote.
Dr. Dre on the other hand, didn't let the abuse allegations shake his success and responded an honest statement during his movie's press tour.
"I was young, f---king stupid. I would say all the allegations aren't true - some of them are." he said. "Those are some of the things that I would like to take back. It was really f-ked up. But I paid for those mistakes, and there's no way in hell that I will ever make another mistake like that again."
