Paula Deen claims she ‘lost it all’ after N-word controversy in tense interview amid TIFF documentary premiere

Disgrace television chief Paula Deen took a provocative tone while she was watching her controversy in a new interview on Sunday.

The former Food Network animator, 78, was joined Sunday by her sons and her business partners Bobby and Jamie Deen for an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, in which she said that she had lost everything ” following a prosecuted deposit in which she admitted that she had used the word N in the past.

The controversial interview, in which she apparently had tense interactions with her own sons, followed the first Saturday at the Toronto International Film of the Canceled Documentary Festival: The Paula Deen Story, directed by Billy Corben.

During the conversation, Deen was questioned on the trial and its past use of the word N.

In particular, the author of the Kitchen Book, which has since found a large part of its empire, offered a blurred chronology when it has stopped using the offensive term for blacks.

The Daily Mail contacted Deen’s representative to comment but has not yet received an answer.

Disgrace television chief Paula Deen took a provocative tone as she looked at her controversy in a new interview on Sunday with The Hollywood Reporter; In the Sunday photo in Toronto

The conversation has become controversial when she and her sons Bobby and Jamie Deen discussed her 2013 cancellation after admitting to a legal testimony that she had “of course” used the word n ​​in the past

The controversial original started after Deen was chased by Lisa Jackson in 2013 for sex discrimination and for allegedly made offensive comments on blacks in her brother’s restaurant.

The judge supervising the trial finally rejected the allegations of racial discrimination on the controversial logic according to which Jackson, who is white, had not standing to continue the allegedly mediocre treatment of Deen black employees.

However, his request for sex discrimination was authorized to stand before the two parties asked the rejection of the trial. Neither Deen nor Jackson never said if a regulation was concluded to end the case.

In the interview, Deen’s son Bobby admitted that he was “excited by” the documentary to be released, but he “thought it was a terrible idea from the start”.

“It was just that a lot of time had happened. I have not seen the reason to go back and remaner it, “he said. “Because we had survived. As a family, we survived it.

He added that his mother’s detractors and fans had already made their decision and would probably not be influenced by the film.

But Deen opposed, saying that the benefits of the trial “ate every day to my instinct”.

“I would have been well if the whole story had been told-if the real story had been told,” she said, before welcoming Jackson to be “a known liar”.

In the interview, Deen’s son Bobby admitted that he was “excited by” the documentary to be released, but he “thought it was a terrible idea from the start”; Deen (Center) is represented with Bobby (L) and Jamie Deen (R)

But Deen opposed, saying that the benefits of the trial “ate every day to my instinct”. “I would have been well if the whole story had been told-if the real story had been told,” she said, before welcoming Jackson to be “a known liar”; Seen with filmmaker Billy Corben (L) in Toronto

“They took his word and ran with it, and no one was investigating each other,” said Deen. “I was not going to be happy until the world saw the truth.

After Bobby reiterated that there was “a lot of risks” to religious the case in the documentary, Deen said that she had already lost everything “.

“I do not agree with that,” replied Bobby.

“Mom, I’m sorry to correct you.” We haven’t lost everything. By far, he continued in a scandalous moment without eyeshadows. “Our family is intact. We are alive.

“It was in 2013, a long time ago. And our beautiful company prospered and survived all this time, ”continued Bobby. “We have beautiful families. We have far from it all. Far from it.

But Deen did not relax, and she told how, within 24 hours ”, she had lost agreements with the Food Network, Walmart and Target.

“It was just everyone,” she said.

Deen added that it was “heartbreaking” because “these people knew me”.

After Bobby reiterated that there was “a lot of risks” to religious the case in the documentary, Deen said that she had already lost everything “. “ I do not agree with that ” replied Bobby

Things have become particularly embarrassing when Bobby, in what is described as a “whispering of the stage” meant being audible for everyone, said: “They are not your friends either.”

Deen continued by saying that she had been forced to apologize that she regretted later, although her other son Jamie said that “nobody makes her apologize in this way.

She even said that she didn’t know what [she] was supposed to apologize.

“To be true when the other side had lied?” Deen added.

She offered a blurred chronology, because she said that the word had “come out of our vocabulary for a long time” and added: “My dad taught me when I was a teenager, he said to me:” I never want to hear you to be mean or rude with anyone. “This is how I was raised.

The anecdote seemed to suggest that Deen had not used the word N since his adolescence, but in his deposition, she admitted to having used her as recently as the 1980s when she told her husband how a black man would have stolen a bank in which she worked.

She also admitted to having declared the word n ​​more recently than this incident, although she said the last time that she had used the offensive term “had been very long” before the 2013 testimony.

Deen continued saying that the word n ​​”always made me tremble”.

Deen said that in his trial had used the word n ​​several times as an adult, but in her interview, she seemed to suggest that a conversation with her father in adolescence led her to remove her from her vocabulary; Seen in 2017 in New York

In a part worthy of a creak worthy of the interview, Deen then described his impression of the way in which the “black community [had] jam[ed] Her name “Over time, and she said she had” many black friends that I like a lot “.

“And they love me,” added Deen, even if she said that she did not remember if she had consulted one of her black friends during the controversial period.

As for the regrets, Deen did not say that she had regretted having ever used the word n ​​several times.

Instead, she said that she wanted to have obtained a lawyer who would have opposed it with force when she was questioned about the use of the term during the deposit.

She also said that she regretted not only to settle the trial from the start, instead of letting him arrive at the disastrous point of deposit.