Two of Dr. Dre's exes, Michel'le Toussaint and Dee Barnes, have criticized the film for failing to recognize their respective abusive relationships with the now-billionaire producer.
Michel'le, an early 90's R&B singer and Dre's ex-fiancée, spoke about their relationship in a new interview with VladTV.
Both she and Dr. Dre have openly acknowledged that he was abusive towards her during their six years together (1990-1996), and Michel'le seemed to understand why it wasn't illustrated in the film, although her answer still struck a chord.
"Why would [Dr.] Dre put me in it? If they start from where they start from," she said, "I was just a quiet girlfriend who got beat up and told to sit down and shut up."
Barnes, the former host of well-known hip-hop show Pump It Up! in the late '80s and early '90s, had a bit more to say. Barnes detailed specific scenarios during her relationship with Andre Young (Dr. Dre). "That event isn't depicted in Straight Outta Compton, but I don't think it should have been, either," Barnes wrote. "The truth is too ugly for a general audience. I didn't want to see a depiction of me getting beat up."
"But what should have been addressed is that it occurred. When I was sitting there in the theater, 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.
"I was young, f--king stupid," he continued. "I would say all the allegations aren't true—some of them are. 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."
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