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Toni Braxton Blames Oprah Winfrey Bankruptcy Interview For Her Career Woes "She Was Mean To Me. That Moment Completely Changed My Career. It Made People Look Down On Me" [Video]
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Toni Braxton at one point was on top of the r&b scene. She has sold more than 40 million albums in her career. With hit songs like "You're Makin' Me High" and "He Wasn't Man Enough" the six time Grammy Award winning singer had the world in the palm of her hands, but things changed dramatically when she started having financial problems.
She filed for bankruptcy in 1998 and later appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show to talk about it. In a clip from her VH1 Behind The Music special she points to that interview as the beginning of her career's downward spiral.
"She was so frickin' mean to me. I was in shock," Toni says. "I couldn’t believe it because I loved her so much. I admired her and looked up to her and she pretty much reprimanded me. “She says to me, ‘I hear you have Gucci flatware; I’m Oprah Winfrey and I don’t have Gucci flatware…’ You didn’t have Gucci flatware because you didn’t wanna buy it; it’s not because you couldn’t afford it."
Toni said Oprah is partly to blame for her career not getting back on track.
“She made me feel this big," Toni explained, squeezing her thumb and forefinger together. "That moment completely changed my career. It made people look down on me."
Since that interview Toni filed for bankruptcy again in 2010. At the time she claimed she owed somewhere between $10 million and $50 million to various creditors according to TMZ.
Yesterday TMZ reported that Toni is being accused by the trustee of her bankruptcy case of fraudulently transferring $53,490 to her husband in order to avoid paying back creditors.
"All of the payments made to Lewis prior to Toni’s bankruptcy filing were appropriate transfers for reasonable and necessary personal and business expenses in the ordinary course of her business," claims Toni's rep.
It doesn't look like things are getting any better for Toni.
Check out a clip from her VH1 special which aired last night where she speaks about Oprah Winfrey.
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Comment by FloW a.k.a ''THE POWER'' on October 31, 2012 at 12:18pm -
dayum
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Comment by U.S.A For World Peace on October 30, 2012 at 5:17pm -
This What I Don't Approve of, Two Black Queens Hating and Fighting Each other, when there should be Fighting this war together
Love to all my Earths out there
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Comment by BuckDat on October 30, 2012 at 5:14pm -
I would too. That's some vintage v***** i WOULD. But she seems like one of those divas who would STILL live above her means even after all of this. But at the end of the day, if you've sold a few million albums, you'll always be able to make money doing shows. Let alone 40 MILLION albums. Sheesh.
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Comment by dee on October 30, 2012 at 5:00pm
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fuccc toni braxton.
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Comment by Samad on October 30, 2012 at 1:45pm -
lmao everyone always says oprah has the power to make or break u and in this case she broke her it is wat it is i dont think its an excuse thts just real
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Comment by M.K.J... on October 30, 2012 at 1:31pm -
DAMN THE INDUSTRY IS NO JOKE ALL THAT FREE STUFF THEY GIVE THESE STARS IS GETTIN TAKIN BACK FROM THEM WOW...
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Comment by AVITY on October 30, 2012 at 1:27pm -
Never bring excuses for your miseries on other people..#Toni Braxton is just bitter
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Comment by class_act on October 30, 2012 at 1:27pm -
Nah baby don't blame O. You are a fabulous woman. Erbody gets old.
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Comment by A. Nix on October 30, 2012 at 1:18pm -
Nobody has sympathy for her. She wanna get on the wendy williams show and play Terrence J saying that he a baby and doesn't have enough money for her. U can't feel sorry for her because now she's broke, a gold digging hoe and just need a n**** to pay her bills.
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Comment by M.K.J... on October 30, 2012 at 1:08pm
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NEVER SPEND MORE THAN U MAKE,ANYWAY I LIKED HER BEHIND THE MUSIC ITS ON NOW LOL...
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