Most of us heard about the news of Raymond “Benzino” Scott and Althea Heart getting fired from Love & Hip Hop. Last week, it was confirmed by various sources that Mona Scott-Young and other producers of the hit reality TV show gave the Hip Hop Weekly c0-owner and his fiancé the boot. Their firing was highly anticipated after the blow-up that occurred on the reunion show involving Althea Heart, Scott’s fiancé and Joseline Hernandez. It didn’t help matters much that Scott tried to defend Heart by allegedly striking Hernandez.
In a recent interview with Wetpaint, R&B star K. Michelle had a few things to say about former cast-mate Benzino and his fiancé Althea heart claiming she knew the real reason why they were terminated. That obviously didn’t sit well with Scott seeing that K. Michelle might in fact had proprietary information about the situation because she is in fact managed by the show’s producer Mona Scott-Young.
“If it’s your time to go, then it’s your time to go. I thought Benzino was wilding. I mean, they were boring as s—t to me, so it is what it is.’ She says.
Although both Scott and Heart had stated on Twitter that they were unsure why they were removed from the show, they suggested that it was a way of Mona taking Joesline and Stevie J’s side in the matter.
“I mean, there were other reasons they were let go that I’m not at liberty to say, and he deserved that, to be let go. It was a serious situation. Says K. Michelle.”
In a no holds barred response, Benzino decided to give the singer a piece of his mind and pen a open letter response on Hip Hop Weekly’s website:
“The thing with K Michelle is that you don’t want to get into a negative debate with a former cast member especially when the show did record numbers this past season after she left. I have had many successes in the industry for many years, so she has a long way to go before she can say anything about Zino. Bottom line is the facts are the facts; K Michelle came on the show in season one and made up a story about being beat up, which was a lie, which came out in her deposition in the case with her former boyfriend. When she left ‘Love & Hip Hop Atlanta’ after season 2 is when I stepped in and became a main character. I was intertwined with everyone’s storylines, so how is my storyline boring? And then from having Hip Hop Weekly on the show, to opening Sleazy & Zino’s, to my mom passing away and me getting shot, all of these were major parts of this past season. Also, I brought my fiancée Althea on the show, and she became a very important factor in the show’s storyline as well. We broke ratings records without K Michelle! If anything was boring, it was her involvement with the New York cast last season, you barely knew that she was even there. She better hope that her new show does better numbers than that VH1 special they did on her that basically flopped. She better hope it’s not a one and done like ‘Gossip Girls ‘, the Hot 97 show and ‘The New Atlanta.’ But once again, she is one of Mona Scott’s favorites–Mona manages her so of course I expected to hear K Michelle speak on their behalf. In my opinion it’s unprofessional to be the leader of a company and take sides and show favoritism, when it clearly was the whole cast, not just one person, that has made ‘Love & Hip Hop Atlanta’ so successful.”
While the magazine mogul may have had a legitimate gripe with his firing from the show, should he have used his magazine to air her out?
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