The Breakfast Club - INTERVIEW: T-Boz Explains TLC's Canceled Shows, Gives Health Update, Talks Retirement From Touring + More

Episode Date: August 29, 2024

The Breakfast Club sits down with T-Boz and she explains TLC's canceled shows, gives a health update, also share thoughts about retiring. Listen for more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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listen to podcasts. Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Of course, Lauren LaRosa filling in for Jess. And we got a special guest on the Zoom this morning, or I should say today, ladies and gentlemen, we have T-Boz. Welcome. How are you feeling? I am feeling great. Thank you. I know everybody's like, how can she? No, I feel good, though. I did just get out of the hospital three days ago, though.

Yeah, you know, we've been hearing all the news about, you know, I guess, I don't know if you call it a health scare, a health issue. So, you know. Honestly, I would have never told nobody. And I hate people being in my business. There's plenty of times I've been in the hospital for sickle cell. And I don't tell because I don't like all this attention. Although I do want to say thank you for all those who have prayed for me. And, you know, oh, I almost dropped my phone.

Sorry. Asked about me. I appreciate that. But I just wanted to clarify since it was out there I guess they had to tell people because um I missed shows for insurance reasons and the promoter and stuff like that I just think it was a little bit too detailed and then now not enough details so what happened to me can happen to anyone. What happened was I was feeling totally fine. I had got to Syracuse, New York off the plane. I ate something. So that's why I thought

I had food poisoning. My stomach felt like if the Incredible Hulk took it and just said Hulk smash, like it was a terrible thing. It was like I couldn't stand up. I couldn't talk. I couldn't walk. And when the doctor came to see me to prove that I was sick, he immediately was like, she has to go in and admit her. I got there and they was talking about going on the surgery side. I'm like, hold up. Wait a minute. What? So what happened was is I had a C-section 24 years ago. So this can happen to any man who has had abdominal surgery, any woman who has had a C-section or fibroids cyst removal, anything done to your abdominal that causes adhesions, which is scar tissue.

So your small intestines move around and it had nothing to do with constipation. No, I'm not on Ozempic. No, it had nothing to do with sickle cell. It was just merely scar tissue hit my lower intestine and kinked it and blocked it off wow and it moved and healed itself and unkept that's how easy it was but this is something people will die from it's very serious some people have to have some of their colon or intestines removed or scar tissue. And many have died from this. It's not diverticulitis. I've seen a lot of people trying to diagnose me.

You know what I'm saying? Everybody was a doctor all of a sudden. But yeah, so I said, well, since my business is out there, let me turn this into an educational thing and let people know this is really a thing because I had no idea the doctor said he's had eight-year-olds who have 50-year-old surgeries and this can happen it can happen to anyone at any time and in most cases it heals itself like mine did and I'm three days out I'm already working again I leave Friday for my next show um already I'm back up and at them there's no pains right now or anything like that like you're not nothing nothing at all I'm eating normal diet the first three days um were testing they put me on IV fluid um pain meds um a medication called bentos for stomach spasms, because that's what what hurts so bad is the vomiting and the spasms. It was like 10 times more than a childbirth contractions. And I can't even that's why I said I have to say Hulk smash, because that's the only thing I can think of. Somebody strong just ripping your stomach like that and I never knew that your stomach could

even hurt like that you know but what was disheartening to me was was like reading some of the jokes and stuff oh she just needs to poop y'all nothing's funny about people fighting for their life or having surgery um other loved ones have died from this nothing's funny about people's health and I just also it irritates me that anything that happens to me, it's like, oh, you know, she got them sickle cells. No, I'm Tiana Watkins. I just happen to have a disease, but it's not who I am and all that I am. And everything is not associated with sickle cell. That's what I thought.

I didn't express that, but I just said to myself, I just assumed it was the sickle cell. But I'm sure when you first started feeling ill, you know your body and you've experienced sickle cell before. So you knew immediately this was something different. Yeah, it was something different. With sickle cell, I can't even tell y'all. I just got out of the hospital the week before last from a crisis. I don't share this at all. I keep my private private because I don't even like all this attention. I don't, you know what I'm saying?

And I never tell when I'm in the hospital. If y'all knew how many times I've been there, we'd be having these interviews every other month. You know what I mean? Because there's no cure and I still deal with it. But I just want to clarify that every time somebody hears something about me, they just instantly think it's my sickle cell. And that's just not true. I just want people to know this can happen to all y'all like any and everybody

like this happens to men all the time. I know a couple of men who have died from it. Yeah, this happens. I just never knew it could happen from adhesions, you know, from people. I seen you clapping back a lot. Didhesions, you know, from start to finish. I've seen you clapping back a lot. Did you feel like you had to answer these people? I've seen people saying that the show should be canceled, you should leave the group. But you were clapping back like it really bothered you what people were actually saying about you.

Yeah, because who the hell are you to tell me to quit my damn job? Like, life is life. Life comes with stuff. Like life ain't easy, but you don't never hear me complain. I don't get on stage and say, I just came from the ambulance. I did our HBO special straight from the ambulance out the hospital and went right back. But you ain't never heard me complain. I ain't never said nothing. You know what I'm saying? But if you work hard for something and you like what you do, who are you to tell me to stop? My stomach issue didn't have anything with

me stopping my career. I'm not stopping Chili from going on doing what she wants to do solo or anybody else. You know what I'm saying? It's not stopping anything for anybody but me. And if I am okay, I'm not stupid. I'm not going to go out there and kill myself for no one and no nothing. That's why the show was canceled because I knew better. I can't do it. I know how going to go out there and kill myself for no one and no nothing. That's why the show was canceled because I knew better. I can't do it. I know how to say I can't do it, but I love performing. It's in my heart. It's in my soul. I'm going to do it. But when it's time to stop, then I'll stop. Then I will stop. You know what I'm saying? But I know what my body can do and I know what I can't do. And anything want in life the way I look at it I was dealt these cards I was born this way so I don't know any different so for me um I knew I had to do

and go the extra mile to do what I want to do but this is what I want so then I do that that's what I'm gonna do I'm gonna do that because this is what I want to do and this is what I chose so okay I do a lot more than your average artist to get up there but I chose this life and that's something I knew that I would have to deal with but when it's time for me to sit my black mind down trust me I do I do so you're going back

out on the road you said Friday this Friday I'm not on tour though y'all I'm just doing spot dates got you so do you guys have an idea I'm sorry go ahead no I'm just saying these are spot dates I do a couple and come right back

got you do you guys have an idea of when the Connecticut and the Syracuse show will be rescheduled it's October I just rescheduled one today October 25th so don't hold me to that because, you know, things happen, but that's what we're talking about, and I just okayed it today.

You know, T-Boz, we've grown as hell now. Is it harder to tour as you get older? Do you want to even leave the house? You see, us, your child, it's hard for everybody. Hell, everybody out here get hurt. You know what I'm saying? The average person touring is hard.

You ain't got to have a disease to take a break or get an injury. It's hard out here. My dancers be broke down at 20. You know what I'm saying? I ain't going to lie. Yeah, things are harder. That's why I'm gearing up to retire probably next year. It will be my last. If y'all want to come see TLC I suggest you do it now because I'm not gonna be doing this much longer because I am 54 but I'm blessed I was told I wouldn't live till

oh um I wouldn't live past 30 I'm 54 still on stage still in our arenas and in in stadiums like come on man traveling the world this is like a dream and and something that i i prayed for and god gave it to me so when god and my body says the time to stop then i will stop i ain't crazy like you know what i'm saying so i'm not gonna kill myself doing this you know first of all i don't dance as much as i used to i want to put that out there like i know you only drop down just a little bit yeah i i i still got it i ain't eddie kane in it you know like nice like this i ain't out here how did you know it was time to retire you just said the word retire and it kind of made my heart drop a little bit

like what made you is it just got you okay you gotta clear okay because when you said that i was like hold on wait no i ain't going nowhere. I'm still going to be doing other things, but retire from touring because it is hard on your body. And because I have sickle cell, I don't want to, when it's time to spend time with my children, I don't want to, you know, be like broke down Benny, you know, tow it from the flow up. No. So I'm going to stop and, and, and do other things so I can spend more time with my children and stuff like up. No. So I'm going to stop and, and, and do other things so

I can spend more time with my children and stuff like that. You know what I'm saying? So I'm going to do the right thing. I have learned how to pace myself on stage. What does your children say? What does your daughter, I know you have a 22 or 23 year old, so she knows what it is. What does she say? Does she say, mama, sit your ass down? What does your daughter say? Mom, don't go on no more tours. Forget all that. You gave your life to these people. Stop. 32 years. So I said, you know what?

You're right. I have. 32 years I've given to y'all. I'm done. I just want to end it the right way, kind of like how Michael Jordan went out. I gave it to you, and I want to bow out gracefully the right way. That's all. So I want to do a bye-bye and you know, this lovely career and your support.

And then you'll see me doing other things. But just, you know, it is hard on my body. I have a torn meniscus that I've had a bad knee for like 20 something years. And I'm finally go ahead and have surgery on. I kept juicing it up with steroids. But it's really doing more damage because, you know, you can't feel the damage, but it's there. So I think that, you know, I write movie scripts. I executive produce movies. I produce, you know, so I want to get into some of my other passions. And I'll probably come out with some more music, but just dancing all over the place it took a lot and I'm not gonna lie because I'm a dancer by heart it took a lot for me to learn how to pace myself on stage because I see somebody and I'm competitive I want to go get it you know what I'm saying I'm like oh you

trying me oh you trying to outdo me you know so I want to just dance but I everybody will tell you I take it easy because I don't have nothing to prove everybody know I could dance and you can't lose that I hate when people be like she's still got a girl I'm it easy because I don't have nothing to prove. Everybody know I can dance and you can't lose that. I hate when people be like, she's still got it. Girl, I'm never going to lose. I'm always had that. Unless my body hurts, that's not allowed. What dance is harder to do right now? The creep dance or the waterfall dance?

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are the ones that you're down on your knees and stuff like that. Only because my right knee, my left knee, I can still get down in there. My right knee is just torn from all the damage. It's just like being an athlete. It's wear and tear. I wanted to know, you're saying

that you might retire and it's almost over as far as touring is concerned do you feel like TLC gets the credit and everything that they deserve for as much as you guys have done and how you've changed the game the sex talk that you guys have you know started in those conversations do you feel like you get the respect and you know just do that you guys deserve from the older um audience who knows but from the youngsters they have no idea you know what i'm saying i mean but you know i don't i don't look for praise i know what i do but i did a glad commercial recently you know and you know a product deal and in our world that's a big deal you know what i'm saying it's just funny the tiktokers thought differently they thought it

was I was embarrassing myself they said uh it was as bad as when Mary did Burger King I was like what I committed like but anybody who got common sense knows that that's a billion dollar company dummy right you're crazy and that that check for that 30 huh no it's okay that check for that like 30 you know second little dance is good boo boo and I'm not doing it for the money but it's GLAAD don't we all have GLAAD and Clorox in our house don't you use trash bags

ain't nothing wrong with that that's a great thing from where we're from we all try to get product deals I wish I could have got them earlier on so you're going to see me doing more product funny how do you think you can choose is there a part of you that feels like you you you might be trying to make up for lost time because of all the money y'all didn't make when y'all was younger no because you know everything happens for a reason i'm not making up for lost time i'm just doing what makes sense you know what i'm saying um i really do use glad

trash bags and i and i i have a whole bunch of clorox products in my house and i've always wanted just doing what makes sense. You know what I'm saying? I really do use Glad Trash Bags and I have a whole bunch of Clorox products in my house and I've always wanted a brand deal. That's a big deal. You know what I'm saying? I used to look at Ludacris and other people like, oh, he got a Chase Bank commercial. Oh, he got a, you know what I mean? That's like major and children don't know that. You know what I'm saying? They don't understand business. And I also don't like when people go, oh, it's just TC now. When you work hard for something and you bought your name, a million dollars per letter, honey, and you work for that name, whether she's physically here or not, we will always be. And I will always have that name, TLC, because it belongs to us and we own it.

A million dollars per letter? A million dollars per letter. To buy back the name TLC? Honey. To buy back the name TLC? Honey, to buy back the name TLC. From who? You know from whom. Don't you say it. Don't you say it.

Don't give nobody no time, child. You know who it was and you know who it is. I didn't know people would be trying to take the L out of it. I've never seen anybody do that. It's just the youngsters. It's kind of sad. It's like, who's raising y'all? Like, my kids don't think like that.

I'm really baffled, like, by some of these comments. Like, because usually, like, comments don't bother me. Y'all can say what you want. Like, you don't hinder my day one way or the other. It's just sad because it's our culture. It's our, you know, our future that's talking here. And they're like cuckoo for Coco Pops. And they have no common sense.

And it's embarrassing. I'm embarrassing myself. No, you're embarrassing yourself, sweetie. You have no idea. That nigga's retarded, T-Boss. Listen, let me tell you something. I got my little niece so i call it my niece nyla nyla is what 28 29 she loves tlc i mean she's she's swears by y'all and she's like

one of the most popping djs out here right now so i i think you got to give yourself a little bit more credit when it comes to that young generation because they really do uh look at y'all you're right you're right so it's not everybody it's just i think it's just ones on social media it wasn't even instagram or twitter it was just the tiktokers yeah i don't know you know but i'm not gonna let nobody take something great and turn it sour like you know i'm out here having fun sean bankhead choreographed it he's doing like victoria monet and everybody out here is popping. A lot of high-end people were

involved. You know what I'm saying? And then people be saying stuff like it cracks me up if some people talk about, I look at them talking about other artists being washed up, but if they were washed up, they couldn't even get that job. It's just so embarrassing that they're typing.

Y'all should think before or do research before y'all be talking. Like it's just but ultimately I get more love than anything. You already got that. I've never seen any of this stuff that you're saying. Like I just said recently. And all the reason I'm looking at that, because I mean, to me and anybody I know, it's like what TLC is like. Right. Thank you. I get a lot of love. I will say that. And I only seen this recently because I had to look at it to give them stats. And I was just like surprised. I was like, what? Whoa. Like, you know, I was shocked, but I was like, what do you say?

I just kind of laughed because some of it was kind of funny, but I'm like, it's also, when you think about it, sad, I'm like, this is what my son has to look up to. Hey, can you let her out, please? This is what my son has to look forward to, you know? I said from the culture, it's not unintended. It feels like TLC has always just gotten tender love and care.

Like, I've never heard bad things. Well, that's good. Really? Never. Okay. Even as far as Halloween, the amount of people that dress. Even as far as Halloween. The amount of people that dress up for TLC as Halloween

shows the amount of love that you guys get. Like, it's 22 and that's what she's doing. Her and the little babies are doing that this year for Halloween. So it's people are, they still love you, love the music and all that. So a couple of ladies on TikTok, don't let it bother you. No, I won't. I won't. I was i was just surprised but no we

do get love and we have like two year olds it's like generations at the concert it'd be like the grandma them their child i've watched my fans grow up get married have kids now some of their kids have kids i'm like dang girl you get old because you watching babies have babies have babies you know but um i love the Halloween time, like, because it baffles me how many two-year-olds know our lyrics and stuff, like, they sing baby, baby, baby, no scrubs, I'm pretty, my niece, I just bought her on stage, she's five, and she sang I'm pretty with me, she was up there like a little star singing everything. Well, for the record, for the youngsters that don't know, TLC is the best-selling

American girl group of all time and the second best-selling female girl group in the world. Behind the white girls. So don't get fucked up. TLC is them. All right? We glad that you're feeling good. I know that

you never discuss your health stuff like you said, and you've been dealing with all these health issues forever. So I'm sorry that you have to be out here explaining this. No, thank you for giving me the platform to do it. I just thought, like, you know, since it's out there, why don't I share this with women? Because I was sitting there baffled myself, like I might have to have surgery. What? This is a thing? I never even knew this could happen or exist it so since it's out there I was

like well let me just let people know you know everything and what what it really was because um the jokes I just think people are just so insensitive I I don't know if it's the video games or the the violence in movies people are so desensitized because I'm like people's loved ones can die from this like and it's just not funny you know I'll just tell her to go poop that's not funny that's not funny and there were no warning signs before you started having the pains or nothing I flew to Syracuse I was feeling fine dancing singing acting silly like I always do and then next thing you know I just got a cramp and I got off the phone with my friend like oh my stomach hurts and then next thing you know, I just got a cramp and I got off the phone with my friend like, oh, my stomach hurts.

And then next thing you know, they're every two to three minutes apart. And I'm like, I remember it being 2.30, laying in a fetal position, vomiting like 12 times. And literally it was like eight something by the time I looked up, like I didn't even know, like I was in so much pain. It was light and then it's dark and it's hours later and I'm not even aware you know and um they're taking me to the hospital admitting me immediately and talking about surgery I'm like whoa but I didn't have to have surgery and I I'm eating normal no pains at all like it never happens and everything's just fine and that was baffling to me from how much pain I was in I was like because I'm like asking can I

eat and he was like honey it has to do with the outside of your intestines not the inside and I'm like whoa you know so that was all huh what's it called again it's called an abdominal obstruction abdominal obstruction okay yeah so filling us in and breaking us down we really appreciate you checking in we really do thank you so much thank you too and thank you for letting me know the love is still there always absolutely well it's team log it's the breakfast club good morning wake that ass up in the morning the breakfast club As a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions, but you just don't know what is going to come for you. Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love.

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