or nah? #Remember #YouWereOnTheGame #AndWeDontMeanTheRapper.' That's it.'īET was quick to respond to Dash's comment in an Instagram post, writing 'Soooooo can we get our check back. Just like there shouldn't be a Black History Month. It's a double standard.'ĭash did not stop there either, saying later in the interview when again asked if BET should be on air: 'No, I don't think so, no. She then added: 'If it were the other way around, we would be up in arms. And if we don't want segregation, then we need to get rid of channels like BET and the BET Awards and the Image Awards where you're only awarded if you're black.' 'Either we want to have segregation or integration. 'We have to make up our minds,' Dash said during an appearance on Fox & Friends. 'I just hope people understand that I'm not judging I'm coming from experience.'Ĭontroversy erupted earlier this year when Dash called Jada Pinkett Smith and Spike Lee's plan to boycott the Oscars over a lack of diversity 'ludicrous,' and then took things a step further. She explained in the interview that part of the reason she has made statements in the past about there being no need for BET or Black History Month is because of the struggles she has been through in her life. 'But part of me felt like I deserved it because what I was coming from was no better. 'He would punch me in my body, my legs, my chest, anything that could be covered,' said Dash of the man, who she does not name. The actress was forced to deal with unimaginable abuse at the age of four when she began being sexual abused by a boy, 16, who was a family acquaintance.ĭash said that she later became addicted to cocaine after being offered a line for the first time when she was just 16, and that for the next few years it controlled her life.ĭash was still doing drugs in her early twenties when she entered into an abusive relationship woith a man who would hit her, but only in places that the bruises and cuts would never been seen. And there is nothing they can't overcome.' 'That's why I won't let me Second Amendment right be taken away from me.'ĭash also said that Austin, now 25, and her daughter Lola, 12, will always be aware of everything she went though in her life, saying 'I let them know that I survived. No you are not going to do this to my child.''ĭash said the next time the man came she had a gun to protect herself, and fired several shots to scare him off. 'But when a child comes, a man holds a gun to your head and you think, 'My son is in that crib right there. I got my a** beat for those moments of love,' said Dash.

'When we had been together, I was so straving for love that I held on. It was shortly after Austin's birth that Dash's abusive ex tracked her down and raped her inside her home as her son lay asleep. 'And God told me, 'Keep your son.' I ripped the IV out of my arm and I said, 'I'm keeping my son.'' I was crying and I said to God, 'Please tell me what to do,'' Dash said in an interview with People. 'When I got pregnant, I was doing a lot of drugs and I didn't want to live. Love: It was during this time she became pregnant with her son Austin, now 25, and almost had him aborted (Dash and Austin above earlier this year)

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