![]() Knight told Michel’le he would divorce another woman to be with her but it turns out the marriage between the singer and Knight was fake, as Knight never got the divorce.There’s high anticipation for the premiere of the upcoming Lifetime biopic, Surviving Compton: Dr. While in prison, Knight proposed to Michel’le and the two were married in the jail. During her time with Suge Knight, he also abused her but luckily for the singer, having a child with Knight was the only thing that stopped the abuse.ġ6. Michel’le didn’t only have to put up with abuse from Dr. During his time in jail, Knight also paid Michel’le $30,000 a month, thus making the singer an employee of his.ġ5. While in jail, Knight had a list of rules for Michel’le including mandatory prison visits and stopping her from seeing her family. Shortly after she began her relationship with Knight, he was sent to jail. Even though Knight was already married at the time, Michel’le had no problem with being the other woman for Knight.ġ4. After returning from rehab, Michel’le began a relationship with Suge Knight. ![]() Michel’le didn’t find out about the engagement until she returned home.ġ3. Although Dre didn’t want to help her with rehab, Suge Knight covered all the costs and made sure the singer got clean.ġ2. Dre’s career continued to take off during his time at Death Row, Michel’le was in a downward spiral and needed help. Dre began to worsen - including having the lights in her house cut off - Michel’le turned to Suge Knight for help, someone she originally didn’t like at first.ġ1. Dre decided to take her and himself to Suge Knight’s Death Row Records.ġ0. Although Michel’le had three Top 40 hits during her time at Ruthless Records, Dr. ![]() She and Jerry Heller both thought it wasn’t in her best interest to have a child at that moment in her career but Dr. Dre’s child, Michel’le thought about having an abortion. After realizing she was pregnant with Dr. The singer began drinking and taking prescription drugs to mask the physical pain from being hit.Ĩ. Michel’le’s substance abuse began as the abuse from Dr. Throughout the film, both men repeatedly asked the singer to leave Dre.ħ. Dre got worse, it was Eazy-E and Jerry Heller who tried to convince Michel’le to leave the producer. Dre and the world it opened her up to, Michel’le also revealed that she was terrified at the same time, never knowing what Dr. While grateful for her relationship with Dr. Dre was the producer behind the Ruthless Records’ songs, it was Eazy-E who wanted to give Michel’le a shot at a solo career.ĥ. Michel’le’s first hit solo single came in 1989 with “No More Lies.” While Dr. Dre already had three children when he began dating her.Ĥ. Dre, the producer-rapper had two children from two different women on the way. According to the film, when Michel’le just began dating Dr. Michel’le’s first taste of the music world came when she was asked to sing on the World Class Wreck Wreckin’ Cru’s “Turn Off the Lights.” Unfortunately for Michel’le, she also got her first taste of the how music business works and wasn’t paid for her contributions to the song.ģ. This is what may have led to the singer staying in an abusive relationship.Ģ. Raised in South Los Angeles, the women in Michel’le’s life raised her to believe that if a man hit a woman, the woman just had to deal with it and it was her role to take care of the man. Check out 16 things we learned from the biopic:ġ. Portrayed by actress Rhyon Nicole Brown, the film began at the start of Michel’le’s career and showed her relationships with Dr. The movie also featured her down fall, which included substance abuse and alleged physical abuse. On Saturday, Lifetime aired its latest biopic, “Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge & Michel’le,” the story of R&B singer Michel’le and her rise to fame. Surviving Compton/Katherine Bomboy-Thornton Here are 16 things we learned from the Lifetime biopic “Surviving Compton,” starring actress Rhyon Nicole Brown as Michel'le.
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