The Breakfast Club - Dollie Parton isn't dying + AI IS TRAUMATIZING families of deceased celebs

Episode Date: October 8, 2025

Dollie Parton, the Legend, needs to cancel some dates to look after her health. Also, AI is harming the surviving family members of beloved celebs, including Robin Williams and MLK Jr. whose family members are asking for a reprieve. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. The murder of an 18-year-old girl in Graves County, Kentucky, went unsolved for years, until a local housewife, a journalist, and a handful of girls, came forward with a story. America, y'all better work the hell up. Bad things happens to good people in small towns. Listen to Graves County on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And to binge the entire season, ad-free, subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. Introducing IVF disrupted, the Kind Body story, a podcast about a company that promised to revolutionize fertility care.

It grew like a tech startup. While Kind Body did help women start family. It also left behind a stream of disillusioned and angry patience. You think you're finally, like, in the right hands. You're just not. Listen to IvyF Disrupted, the Kind Body Story, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Jonathan Goldstein, and on the new season of heavyweight. And so I pointed the gun at him and said this isn't a joke.

A man who robbed a bank when he was 14 years old. And a centenarian rediscovers a love lost 80 years ago. How can a 101-year-old woman fall in love again? Listen to heavyweight on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Jay Shetty, host of the On Purpose podcast. I had the incredible opportunity to sit down with the one, the only, Cardi B. My marriage, I felt the love dying. I was crying every day.

I felt in the deepest depression that I had ever had. This shit was not given to me. I worked my ass off for me. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm a home guy that knows a little bit about everything and everybody. You know what I'm not going to lie about that, right? Lauren came in hot. Hey, y'all, what's up?

It's Lauren LaRosa, and this is the latest with Lauren LaRosa. This is your daily dig on all things, pop culture, entertainment news, and all of the conversations that shake the room. So we are going to get right on into the latest, you know, and what we do over here, we do a little thing called Behind the Scenes of the Grind Check-in. Back on the Grind. Now, the behind-the-scenes of the grind check-in is when, you know, I say, when you're going, going, going, you never stop to ask yourself, how are you doing?

How you feeling? And asking for real, like, not just asking just to, like, get through conversation. So if I'm checking it behind the scenes to the grind, you know, today I am a bit exhausted. These last couple weeks, October's always a busy month for me, even though it's just beginning. October's always busy for me because it's HBCU homecoming season. So, like, I'm out, I'm about, and I'm doing a ton of things speaking. We got the Delaware State University Homecoming, coming up this weekend, October 10th and October 11th. And I'm hosting a alumni party Friday, October 10th in Wominton, Delaware at the Queen Theater.

If you guys are listening, you can go and get your ticket to IFL events and come and party with me. Alumni and our friends and our grown friends come out and party with us. Saturday, we're at the Del State game. You know, we got Deshaun Jackson with the football team. you know, former NFL player, Deshawn Jackson. So a lot of people are anticipating homecoming this year and just all the things, right? Like so much coming up. So I've been running.

I've been ripping. I've been running. But I always think about this when I feel like, I was saying today, I feel like the day is going like boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Like there's no minute to like slow down. And whatever I feel like that, I get tired because you're not sleeping as much because you're anticipating these heavy days. Um, and you can be overwhelmed, but yeah, it's just the tiredness, the groginess kicks in.

And you got pushed through. But I always tell myself, uh, you can't complain about how much food on the, how much food it's on the table when the plan was to eat. So I am not complaining, but Lord, I can't wait to get home today and rest. Um, this is the first day I'll get home before like six, seven o'clock, okay? So yes, that is me checking in behind us into the grind, low riders. I hope y'all are feeling well and doing well out there. I've been meeting a lot of you guys while I've been ripping and running.

I've been in Memphis for the podcast festival. I've been in D.C. For the Third Girl Marshal Leadership Institute, full of HBCU students and, you know, about to be graduates. I've been some places. And I've met a lot of you guys that listen to the podcast. And I love that you guys are enjoying the content. So listen, keep pulling up on me.

Wherever you see that, I'm going to be at, low riders, I want you all to be there. So if you want to enjoy Homecoming weekend, IFL events.com Delaware State University's Alumni Homecoming Weekend Party. Kickoff. Hosted by me, baby. Okay? It's happening Friday, October 10th.

Make sure y'all come out. Now, hop on into the latest. Speaking of dates and bookings and being everywhere, Dolly Parton, country music legend, Dolly Parton has had to cancel some shows. So a few days ago, almost about a week ago now,

Dolly Parton came out and told her audience and told us the fans that she would be cancelling some live shows she had in Vegas lined up for, like it was a couple different days. It's like six or seven dates in Vegas. Tickets were on sale, all the things. People were excited. So Dolly Parton came out September 28th, right? So this was about a week ago. And she said, I want the fans and the public to hear directly from me that unfortunately I will need to postpone my. my upcoming Las Vegas concerts.

As many of you know, I've been dealing with some health issues that has been a topic. And a lot of people thought because of those health issues, Dolly Parton was actually going to like take a step away from music. Because at this point, Dolly Parton ain't got nothing to prove. And, you know, at her age and, you know, everything that like touring and these shows and just the hustle and bustle takes, it's like, why? So people thought she was about to take a step back because she had been, you know, taking a set back a bit.

So she says, I've been dealing with some health challenges. My doctors tell me that I must have a few procedures. As I joked with them, it must be time from my 100th mile checkup, although it's not just the usual trip to see my plastic surgeon. Okay, Dolly? I know that's right, girl. She said, if it ain't broke, I'm still going to fix it. I be in a plastic surgeon's office every day.

Not a girl. So she continues, in all seriousness, given this, I am not going to be able to rehearse to put together the show that I want you to see. In the show that you deserve to see, you pay good money to see me perform, and I want to be at my best for you. While I'll still be able to work on all of my projects from here in Nashville, I just need a little bit more time to get show ready, as they say. And don't worry about me quitting the business because God hasn't said anything about that or anything about me stopping yet. But I believe he is telling me to slow down right now.

Lord, Dahlia. Yes, please, okay? I don't think people understand how strenuous it is performing. there is travel, there is, it's long hours because there's hair, makeup, there's rehearsal, there's the actual performance, and then there's recovery from the performance. Like, you're on your feet, you're moving, you're grooving for hours at a time when you're performing. Then she doing meet and greets afterward, that takes a lot out of you, too, interacting with

all of them different people and different energies and, you know, the talking and the smiling for hours after a show, it's a lot, multiple dates, it's a lot to put on her. So she says, but I believe he is telling me to slow down right now so I can be ready for more big adventures with all of you. I love you and thank you for understanding, Dolly. So she posted that, you know, about a week ago. And although I think, you know, it may fens concerned a bit, but I think she handled this very well. She handled it like any celebrity would, any old school celebrity who understands. And I don't say old school because of her age.

I'm not harping on that. I just mean, I think celebrities of a certain fame or, like, time period, understand that if you don't control the narrative, the narrative going to control you. So she said, look, I'm not about to be absent from all these shows and be removed from the road and people just speculating about my health, especially because she's been doing it for a long time. And that is a conversation once artists get up their age, anytime they're pulled off of something or whatever. I know Gladys Knight, there's been conversations around her health and whether she's, you know, healthy enough to be touring on the Queen's tour that she's doing with Shaka Khan, Patty LaBelle,

and Stephanie Mills. It's a conversation that people have, right? So she's like, I'm going to address it myself, which I thought was great. Calm some fans down, even though it alarmed them still, but it was great. So then, Dolly Parton's sister posts to Facebook, and she scares the hell out of fans. She's asking for prayers for her sister on Facebook, and people, instantly just thinks people instantly from here think that this means everything dolly part and just said to us about i'm just letting y'all know first it ain't nothing too crazy i just need a little tune-up

when i saw the apology i'm like oh my god are we about to lose dolly barton what is about to happen and i read it from my phones today guys because running out of the house late because i woke up late from all of the long hours that we've been putting in. Forgot my computer at home, but we're here. So she says on Facebook, this is Dolly Parton's sister. This is her first post. She had to post too because she had to clear some things up. So in the first post, she says,

last night I was up all night praying for my sister, Dolly. Many of you know she hasn't been feeling her best lately, and I truly believe in the power of prayer. I've been led to ask all of the world that loves her to be prayer warriors and pray with me. She's strong, she's loved, and with all the prayers being lifted for her, I know in my heart, she's going to be just fine.

Godspeed, my cissy Dolly, we love you with a heart. Man, when I tell you, the headlines were like, Dolly Parton's sister sends extra love and prayers or requests extra love and prayers. Is it the last for Dolly Parton? Like, it literally sent people into a frenzy. So then her sister had to post and say, I want to clear something up.

I didn't mean to scare anyone to make it sound so serious for asking for prayers for Dolly. She's been a little under the weather, and I simply asked for prayers because I believe so strongly in the power of prayer. It was nothing more than a little sister asking for prayer for a big sister. Thank you all for uplifting her.

Your love truly makes a difference. Baby, they got in on Facebook comments so fast, talking about what's going to happen. Is she okay? Is this the last hurrah for Dolly Parton? She told her she was going to be good. Now, you're here saying she needs prayers and what is going on. So she had to clear it up.

But then Dolly Parton had to come and make a video to further explain that she's going to be good as well because all these things with her sister stirred the pot even more. So this video, this is actually breaking. I saw this as I was coming here to the podcast. This video was posted not too long ago. Let's take a listen to Dolly Part. She says, I ain't dead yet, honey. Stop playing with me. I know lately everybody thinks that I am sicker than I am.

Do I look sick to you? I'm working hard here. Anyway, I wanted to put everybody's mind at ease, those of you that seem to be real concerned, which I appreciate. And I appreciate your prayers, because I'm a person of faith. I can always use the prayers for anything and everything. But I want you to know that I'm okay. I've got some problems, as I mentioned, back when my husband, Carl, was very sick.

That was for a long time. and then when he passed, I didn't take care of myself, so I let a lot of things go that I should have been taken care of. So anyway, when I got around to it, the doctor said, we need to take care of this, we need to take care of that. Nothing major, but I did have to cancel some things so I could be closer to home, closer to Vanderbilt, you know, where I'm kind of having a few treatments here and there.

But I wanted you to know that I'm not dying. Did you see that those, that AI picture? of Reba and me? Oh, Lordy. I mean, they had Reba at my deathbed, and we both looked like we need to be buried. But, and I thought, oh, my Lord, but if I was really dying, I don't think Reba would be the one at my deathbed. She would not come visit me earlier, but anyway, there's just a lot rumors flying around, but I figured if you heard it from me, you'd know that I was okay. Y'all made Dolly Parton get on here and tell y'all, she ain't dead. She ain't ready to die yet. AI is insane. Y'all know what else? Going into another story in the latest, because, okay, so

Dolly Park just had to clear up the fact that she's alive. She may not be as well as she normally is, but she's getting to it and she's still able to move around. She's actually in the studio for everyone listening to the audio of the podcast who cannot see that video. Dolly Parton is at, and I'll post that to our Brown Girl grinding Instagram if you want to go and check it out. It's Brown Girl grinding all common spelling.

Dolly Parton in that video is actually sitting in what looks like, almost like a voiceover studio because there was like a green screen behind her and then there's like a mic and a chair. So she's working on something. As she said she would be. She said, I'll be home working. Just got to stay close to the home.

I just can't get on the road. I'm trying to tell y'all, that travel booking light ain't no joke. And I feel that. I'm 33 years old, and after a week or two weeks, I literally schedule a weekend where I don't even let people know I'm home because of how much it takes out of you. I can't imagine. And who am I? Dolly Parton is Dolly Parton. So you can only imagine how grand her travel is, her meet and greets are, all the things. AI is really a mother effort, though, because Dolly Parton having to respond to something like this because I definitely know her sister.

Facebook post contributed to the scare. I was going to say some, but I would say a lot. But also, too, that AI photo. All I know is what I've been told, and that to have truth is a whole lie. For almost a decade, the murder of an 18-year-old girl from a small town in Graves County, Kentucky, went unsolved, until a local homemaker, a journalist, and a handful of girls, came forward with a story. I'm telling you, we know Quincy Kilder, we know.

A story that law enforcement used to convict six people, and that got the citizen investigator on national TV. Through sheer persistence and nerve, this Kentucky housewife helped give justice to Jessica Curran. My name is Maggie Freeling. I'm a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. producer, and I wouldn't be here if the truth were that easy to find. I did not know her and I did not kill her, or rape or burn or any of that other stuff that

you all said it. They literally made me say that I took a match and struck and threw it on her. They made me say that I poured gas on her. From Lava for Good, this is Graves County, a show about just how far our legal system will go in order to find someone to blame. America, y'all better work the hell up. Bad things happens to good people in small towns. Listen to Graves County in the Bone Valley feed on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

And to binge the entire season out free, subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. I'm Jonathan Goldstein, and on the new season of heavyweight, I help a centenarian mend a broken heart. How can a 101-year-old woman fall in love again? And I help a man atone for an armed robbery he committed at 14 years old. And so I pointed the gun at him and said, this isn't a joke. And he got down, and I remember feeling kind of a surge of like, okay, this is power. Plus, my old friend Gregor and his brother

try to solve my problems through hypnotism. We could give you a whole brand new thing where you're like super charming all the time. Being more able to look people in the eye. Not always hide behind a microphone. Listen to Heavyweight on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Hey, I'm Jay Chetty, host of the On Purpose podcast. I had the incredible opportunity to sit down with the one, the only, Cardi B. My marriage, I felt the love dying. I was crying every day. I felt in the deepest depression that I had ever had. How do you think you're misunderstood? I'm not this evil, mean person that people think that I am. I'm too compassionate.

I have sympathy for that my man. Put so much heart and soul into your work. What's the hardest part? for you to take that criticism. This shit was not given to me. I worked my ass off for me. Even when I was a stripper, I'm gonna be the best pole dancer in here.

When was the moment you felt I did it? I still, to this day, don't feel comfortable. I fight every day to keep this level of success because people want to take it from you so bad. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Chetty on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I started trying to get pregnant

about four years ago now. We were getting a little bit older and it just kind of felt like the window could be closing. Bloomberg and IHeard podcast present IVF disrupted the Kind Body story. A podcast about a company

that promised to revolutionize fertility care. Introducing Kind Body, a new generation of women's health and fertility care. Backed by millions in venture capital and private equity, it grew like a tech startup. While Kind Body did help women start families, it also left behind a stream of disillusioned and angry patients.

You think you're finally, like, with the right people in the right hands, and then to find out again that you're just not. Don't be fooled. By what? All the bright and shiny. Listen to IVF disrupted, the Kind Body story, starting September 19 on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Now, in other news in the latest, Martin Luther King's daughter, Dr. Bernice King, and Robin Williams' daughter, Zelda Williams. Robin Williams is the actor.

Everyone knows Robin Williams. I don't have to describe who he is. Huge actor. He put so much joy in our lives for so long. And then he passed away. He died of suicide some years ago. His daughter had to get on Instagram and ask people and fans to stop creating and sending her AI videos of her dad.

And Martin Luther King's daughter, Dr. Bernice King, recently retweeted a variety article detailing Robin Williams' daughter asking people to stop sending these videos and said, I concur, because, you know, the same thing she says is happening with her and her father, Dr. Martin Luther King. So Zelda Williams, Robin Williams' daughter, posted to her Instagram story, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even. Full stop. It's dumb. It's a waste of time and energy. And believe me, it's not, and not as in all caps. It's not what he'd want. You're not making art. You're making disgusting, over-processed hot dogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the

history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat, hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. That's gross. So there was a variety article, as I mentioned, and, you know, the headline of the variety article says, Robin Williams' daughter, Zelda, tells fans, please just stop sending me AI videos. Dr. Bernice King, who is the daughter of Martin Luther King, retweeted this article, this headline on X, and she says, I concur concerning my father. Please stop.

Over the weekend, I saw there was a AI video of Kobe, and he was like, you know in this AI video he's like streaming and like playing um like one of those like some game he was playing on like either like a PS5 he was gaming in some way um like playing a video game and he was streaming in in this AI video and I saw people on X having a conversation about how insane it must be to see your loved one being placed in like a real who's passed the way being placed in like a real setting of today as if they're here and that just like randomly pops up on your timeline like how traumatizing and like gut wrenching that must be for a person who has had to deal with not being able to see the person that they love in real time anymore or hear

their voice or see their mannerisms or just you know certain things in your life that are happening today just not be able to share it with them because they're not here and then all of a sudden something is created where now you can place those people, their mannerisms, their likeness, their voice into something of real time just for fans to see and, you know, I mean, I guess there are some people that enjoy that. And there was a whole, you know, back and forth, a discourse on X about, is it helpful or harmful to do that with big celebrities? Because, you know, the conversation that that I saw was the whole point of, you know,

know, because these people were so well-beloved, it's kind of like the Tupac hologram is how they tried to compare it. Because these people are so well-beloved, people of the future, or people now, right, people today who may not have gotten to experience them in real life when they were alive, want to still experience them. And that's where AI comes in as a tech, you know, resource to be able to do that. And on the other side, the common sense thought is, but there are real people who really did experience these people who lived their everyday life with these people. Their lives depended on these people like Kobe Bryant's daughters and his wife, you know, Vanessa who no longer have him, Dr. Bernice A. King and, you know, her brother

Martin Luther King III and just so many other people, Robin Williams' daughter and their family that have to look at this and be like, we didn't ask for this, though. Now people talk about AI and everything that it will do and how it will help. I think these are, the moments where you're able to have the conversation that a lot of people who don't think that AI is helpful try and have where they're like, but AI and anything tech like that that just goes, that is just trained to do something because of a push of a button or HTML code or whatever it is that you do to program AI is desensitized. Like a human being, I would hope. I mean, because you got to think about it, right? Like, there is a human behind the AI at some point.

but it's easier to stand behind an AI release of something versus having to stand next to something that you've said or done yourself as a human. And I think a human being would be more sensitized to things like this. Like, okay, does their family want to see this? And when I say a human being, because again, like I said, when you talk about AI, there is a human there. Like someone has to create the idea that is then executed into an AI version.

So there's someone somewhere that is like, oh, this would be a good idea. And then they make it into AI, and AI is what the world gets. But it's completely different if you're a person that is standing on the platform or more, you know, if you're taunting a person's legacy in any way as a real human and not an AI or a bot or whatever,

it's so different than if you're able to hide behind technology. is my point. And I think that's the scare that a lot of people have when it comes to AI. In every genre and every facet of, in every facet of life,

it's like, if you're able to hide behind technology of this sort, where does a human factor come in? And do we consider the human factor? And that's a little bit scary you even have to think about. I don't know.

I think this is one of the things where you take it to the streets and the tweets and I mean, I want to know how you guys feel. We outside, we outside, outside in a tweet. Every other page I go. I think, I mean, I can't imagine if it was me. I can't imagine if it was me and I'm getting on my timeline and I'm reliving someone's being in their existence and I didn't ask to do it. And, you know, like I think too, like with family of celebrities, they have it rough.

And I think for me in the space that I sit in, because I remember all of the flat that, you know, I'm not. And, you know, I'm talking about just human error now, not AI error, human error or human actions that can be perceived as insensitive or error. I remember being at TMZ when we did the Kobe Bryant death story. And there were a lot of people who were upset that the story was even covered because the way that it came out in news other places, you know, later was that Kobe Bryant's family had not been given a heads up. or just had the time to deal with the news of Kobe Bryant and his daughter, Gigi, crashing and not making it, you know, and dying in that helicopter crash.

But TMZ had posted this story. And I remember everywhere that I went for about two months, that's all everybody wanted to ask about. It's like, is it true that you guys didn't give his family a heads up? how do you feel about like stuff like that and when you when you're working there and you're a part of a brand it's kind of like you know I don't even think it's just because of where you work I think in this world of content and being able to post and upload an update or control someone's emotions from a piece of content that you're doing whether it's a story an exclusive a report or a AI version of video that now a family member is actually

you to take down. I think what I learned in that moment from the Kobe Bryant situation was that the covering of the story. And, you know, that's a lot different because I also know how the newsroom works. So I know that there is no story that doesn't go unalerted. Typically, that's the rule of thumb. Like something like that, especially because of who it was, you, of course, have to reach out, you know, work with.

you know his team and you know all the things right and i think at the same time in a situation like that it's like people are so caught up in celebrity and you know things being mundane and things just becoming a job that the human factor sometimes it just like it disappears and i think when you live in that world where that's what you're doing every single day It's kind of tough. It's like, you know, you're in a space where it's like, you have a job. But at the same time, now, removed from the situation and, you know, outside of that outlet, number one, if I'm being honest, I don't know a news outlet that would have held that story.

But number two, now that I'm where I'm at and I'm able to like kind of look from the outside end, I don't know if me personally right now, like, if I had gotten that story, story first right now on the latest with Lauren the Rosa, whether we were here on the podcast or at the breakfast club, I don't know if I would have done that story. Not first anyway. Not until I was able to like, you know, like speak to, I would have to be in a really okay place about being a person to talk about that. And I just don't know where I'm at now. I could have done that. And I'm not seeing this to like say that, you know, I feel like TMZ did anything maliciously or like, you know, it was just like, F his family.

I know in that situation that wasn't the case, even though it's not, it hasn't ever been presented that way. But I do know, even if you call and you give a family a heads-up or whatever was done, because I, you know, heard that the proper measures were taken, which is giving heads-up to, like, you know, different people on his team or whatever. And then, of course, you got people on the outside saying that that is not what happened. I wasn't my story. I can say that, right? But what I will say is we're getting to a place now and content and reporting and just so many other things that I feel like being human again is kind of leading a bit. Like people, because there's so much of the other stuff out there, like AI videos of people who are not even with us anymore that people make just to get views on a YouTube channel to be able to monetize something. things like that.

Like I think because you're seeing stuff like that, people want things that make them feel human. And I don't know what that balance is between the things that make people feel human and made people feel good and all the other stuff that sometimes happen when you're working for a media outlet. All I know is what I've been told.

And that's a half-truth is a whole lie. For almost a decade, the murder of an 18-year-old girl from a small town in Graves County, Kentucky, went unsolved. Until a local homemaker, a journalist, and a handful of girls came forward with a story. I'm telling you, we know Quincy killed her. We know. A story that law enforcement used to convict six people and that got the citizen investigator on national TV. Through sheer persistence and nerve, this Kentucky housewife helped give justice to Jessica Curran. My name is Maggie Freeling. I'm a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, producer, and I wouldn't be here if the truth were that easy to find.

I did not know her and I did not kill her, or rape or burn or any of that other stuff that y'all said. They literally made me say that I took a match and struck and threw it on her. They made me say that I poured gas on her. From Lava for Good, this is Graves County, a show about just how far our legal system will go in order to find someone to blame. America, y'all better work the hell up. Bad things happen to good people in small towns. Listen to Graves County in the Bone Valley feed on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And to binge the entire season at first.

Subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. I'm Jonathan Goldstein, and on the new season of heavyweight, I help a centenarian mend a broken heart. How can a 101-year-old woman fall in love again? And I help a man atone for an armed robbery he committed at 14 years old. And so I pointed the gun at him and said, this isn't a joke. And he got down, and I remember feeling kind of a surge of like, okay, this is power. Plus, my old friend Gregor and his brother tried to solve my problems through hypnotism.

We could give you a whole brand new thing where you're like super charming all the time. Being more able to look people in the eye. Not always hide behind a microphone. Listen to heavyweight on the I-heart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Hey, I'm Jay Chetty, host of the On Purpose podcast. I had the incredible opportunity to sit down with the one, the only, Cardi B. My marriage, I felt the love dying. I was crying every day.

I felt in the deepest depression that I had ever had. How do you think you're misunderstood? I'm not this evil, mean person that people think that I am. I'm too compassionate. Have sympathy for that fuck my man. Put so much heart and soul into your work. What's the hardest part for you to take that criticism? This shit was not given to me.

I worked my ass off for me. Even when I was a stripper, I'm gonna be the best pole dancer in here. When was the moment you felt I did it? I still, to this day, don't feel comfortable. I fight every day to keep this level of success because people want to take it from you so bad. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Chetty on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I started trying to get pregnant about four years ago now. We're getting a little bit older and it just kind of felt like the window could be closing.

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Like, you'll create an AI version of, like, a random celebrity dead or alive to just, like, sell a product that gets someone's attention. I think that is a bit different because as a journalist, there's supposed to be a responsibility of, like, oh, why are you telling this story? And sometimes it is just to inform. But I don't know, I just, I think that the tide is changing. I think that there are more people who want to wait and not be first, but be a person, be factual at the same time. And yeah, like everybody in what I do wants to lead conversation, I want to lead conversation, right?

That's the tagline for this podcast is exclusives. But in where I sit now, a lot of times I'm thinking, like, when things are like, when you just run and you put things out, whether you, Proving it to be true or not, at the end of the day, there's other people on the side of that content is what I'm trying to get to. So when you think about Dolly Parton and her sister, even though her sister did not mean no harm, Dolly Parton's on the other side of that content and her fans are going crazy thinking something happened to her. When she talked about that AI photo of her and Reba McIntyre and Reba McIntyre is like at her bedside and she's dying. There's other people on the side of that content. Dolly Parton's family who is probably already super protective over her because of her age and just, you know, things just are sensitive as you get up there and you, you know, your big superstar who doesn't get the time to take care of yourself the way you need to.

There's other people on the side of that. So, or other side of that. I don't know. I just think, I feel like the tide is changing, but it could also be me and my mind. mental and what I want to intake changing as well too. I still follow all the brands and this is not, again, this is not a knock to TMZ because like I said, I don't know any outlet that would have had that story and wouldn't have and had it factual and, you know, 100% ready to go and wouldn't have broke that story.

But I think that's always the question for me now in the space that I'm in and it should be a question for anybody online because at this point, you don't even got to be in a certain position to be able to affect people with your content. You could just turn on your phone and create a TikTok account. So what are we really getting out of this? What's the, you know, what does that look like to the other person on the side of that content? It's what I ask myself a lot now. It's a tough space to be in. I don't know if there's ever really an answer to that, especially what I do as far as journalism and, you know, even the shoot interviews, y'all. What's on the other side of it? And is it worth it? Is the question? I'll see you guys

in the streets, in the tweets, because I want to hear from y'all, you know? Do you guys, you know, at any point in time, do you think creators, whether it's media outlets, people on social, whatever, do you think we'll ever get to a point where people fully stop in their tracks and say, but who do I affect on the other side of this? And are they okay before I do this? Y'all think we'll get there? I don't know if we'll get there. I feel like we salacious sales too much.

Like how sex sells, salacious things sell too much for us to ever do that. But let me know what y'all think. I'm learning. I'm growing. I'm here with y'all. And I don't know how we got to the roundabout we just got to and closing out this show. But it made me think of that and how I felt having to answer those questions about So, yeah, you know, being at TMZ at that time and feeling as a person like, man, his family has to deal with that.

But then feeling like, I mean, but what outlet would have held that story? And then looking at, you know, Dr. Bernice King and seeing her response to all of these things and thinking about the torture that Robin Williams' daughter must be going through. We didn't made Dolly Parton get online and post a video. she is Dolly Parton, she, you know, she got other things to worry about, I'm sure. But now we're here. Let me know what y'all think. Will we ever get there?

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