Michel’le Toussaint: 3 Fast Facts You Need to Know

 

Michel’le Toussaint, known professionally as just Michel’le, is the subject of Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge & Michel’le, a new Lifetime movie that debuted on October 15. Toussaint had an abusive relationship with Dr. Dre, claims he disputed this past week by trying to keep Lifetime from airing the movie. The 45-year-old singer has a son from her relationship with Dre and also has a daughter with ex-husband Suge Knight.

1.Dr. Dre Claims Michel’le’s Allegations That He Abused Her are False & He Threatened to Sue if ‘Surviving Compton’ Aired

 In her Breakfast Club interview, seen above, Michel’le claimed that she had five black eyes, suffered a crack rib and a broken nose during her relationship with Dre. At the time of Straight Outta Compton‘s release in 2015, Dre issued an apology “to the women I’ve hurt.”

In an interview with Rolling Stone, it appeared that he directly apologized to what he allegedly did to Michel’le.

2.Michel’le Was Married to Suge Knight, Who Also Threatened to Sue if He Looked Bad in ‘Surviving Compton’

 

Michel’le married Suge Knight, the co-founder of Death Row Records and they had a daughter, Bailei, who was born in 2002. She also had a son, Marcel, with Dre. Her marriage with Knight ended soon after Bailei’s birth.
In 2009, Michel’le went to court over unpaid child support from Knight, The Wall Street Journal reported at the time. Three years after Death Row Records and Knight filed for bankruptcy, she asked the bankruptcy official handing the estates to pay $40,476 in unpaid court-ordered spousal and child support bills that had stacked up in three months.
In an interview with the Huffington Post, Michel’le said that Knight also threatened to sue her and Lifetime “if we made him look any type of way” in Surviving Compton.
Suge Knight is still behind bars and facing murder charges in the January 2015 hit-and-run, in which one man was killed.

3.Michel’le Has a Unique, Squeaky Voice Because She Talks Over Her Larynx

 

When Michel’le was on The Wendy Williams Show earlier this month, the first thing Williams wanted to get out of the way was her unique, mousy voice. Although she has powerful vocals when she sings, she sounds entirely different when she talks. Michel’le explained that this is because she talks over her larynx. Her singing comes from her diaphragm.
In an interview with The Breakfast Club in March 2015, Michel’le said that her voice has always been like this. She said that she didn’t start talking until she was 3 or 4 years old. When asked if her voice was due to anything wrong, she said it wasn’t. It’s just the way she talks.
When SoulTrain.com asked Michel’le if she would like to voice a cartoon character, she said she would be interested.
“I’m signed to a voiceover agency so hopefully I’ll land something really quickly because I love it. I’m waiting for something to bite,” she said. “And I don’t care if I get to do the voice of a pig, a dog or a bear—I don’t care—I just want it!”

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