Alexia Norton Jones, one of the alleged victims of Russell Simmons who appears in “On the Record,” a new documentary about sexual misconduct from the music mogul, couldn’t believe what …
who is in many ways the second most powerful black woman in America after Michelle Obama. She’s talking about the documentary and she’s giving it shade. And this is after she’s already stepped away from the documentary.
The whole thing, it’s been very destabilizing. You don’t want to hear your name on a national news story in the morning said incorrectly, because your name is who you are.documentary. Nobody could find me. When I got in front of the camera, Amy Ziering didn’t really know anything about me because it happened so last minute. I’ve come in at the very end of the film. It’s like they had to fit me into a film that has already been made.
It’s like these buildings just crashed, and I don’t think Russell is even aware of what he’s done. Actually, there was one moment after I made the documentary when I just went into my own closet and I was just sobbing so much, because I didn’t know where else to go. I didn’t know what to do with these feelings, because I didn’t know there was anybody else. If you think it’s just you, somehow you feel like you can deal with it — that you can somehow forgive and soldier on.
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