Judge Gives Gospel Singer Harsh Reality Check About SECRET Past! #courtroomdrama — Transcript

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1. 0:00Melissa James, I'm suing her for $3,000
2. 0:02because she walked out of the podcast
3. 0:04mid-episode [music]
4. 0:05and caused me a lot of unexpected, you
5. 0:07know, costs and damages. The thing about
6. 0:09her is she has an amazing voice and
7. 0:11something about her also brings people
8. 0:13to her. So, I was like, you know,
9. 0:14finding out a few years ago that she had
10. 0:16a background from being an exotic dancer
11. 0:19to turn gospel singer. I was like, "Hey,
12. 0:21that's a good thing you could talk about
13. 0:22on the podcast and promote your album."
14. 0:24So, I agreed to pay her $1,000 to come
15. 0:27on the podcast for 2 hours. She sent me
16. 0:29a message [music] to my phone and said,
17. 0:31"Hey, you know, unless we can talk about
18. 0:33everything, just don't bring up my
19. 0:34past." [music] I said, "Okay, we won't
20. 0:36bring up your past."
21. 0:37>> So, what was the point of you even
22. 0:38bringing her on then? To promote her
23. 0:39album or to promote
24. 0:40>> her album, and she wanted to keep it
25. 0:41about her kids and family, and we did.
26. 0:43From there, she comes on the podcast. Uh
27. 0:45she looks surprised that there's a live
28. 0:47audience, but after that, you know, she
29. 0:50storms out, causing me a lot of
30. 0:51unexpected costs. I had to book another
31. 0:53guest in the time slot that she was on
32. 0:56there because she saw a woman stand up
33. 0:58and ask her a question about her past.
34. 1:00The lady stands up and says, "Hey, girl,
35. 1:02I used to work with her. We used to
36. 1:03dance together." And she gets mad and
37. 1:05gives me like the stare, a death stare,
38. 1:07and I'm like, "What's going on?" I
39. 1:08didn't script this. I didn't know that
40. 1:10that would even happen. But she gets up
41. 1:12and says, "Oh, we talked about this."
42. 1:14and just walks out the show.
43. 1:15>> Under your talent agreement, it says
44. 1:17format unscripted conversational style
45. 1:19with audience Q&A.
46. 1:21>> Yes.
47. 1:21>> Were you aware of that, Miss Miss James?
48. 1:23>> I did not know that. And it was there
49. 1:25was no verbal agreement. I did not
50. 1:27>> Can you read?
51. 1:28>> I did read. I did read the
52. 1:29>> your contract?
53. 1:30>> Did you read my contract? Yes, I did.
54. 1:31>> It clearly says unscripted
55. 1:33conversational style with audience Q&A.
56. 1:35>> I think that person was planted in the
57. 1:38audience to ask me [music] that
58. 1:39question. Because this person randomly
59. 1:41comes out of nowhere, and they haven't
60. 1:43>> didn't randomly come out of nowhere,
61. 1:45according to what I read. That person
62. 1:47was in your life. We all have a past
63. 1:49that we don't like. We all have
64. 1:51something that we have done in this life
65. 1:53that [music] we don't like and we're
66. 1:55ashamed of. But so be it. And if you're
67. 1:57going to dwell on If you're going to get
68. 1:59upset with people talking about your
69. 2:01past, you're not going to be able to
70. 2:03move forward. And part of your Christian
71. 2:05experience says, [music]
72. 2:07"Forgetting those things that are
73. 2:08behind, I press forward toward the
74. 2:11mark." Have your own conversation about
75. 2:13it, so you can put the spin on it that
76. 2:15you want. But, trying to hide it allows
77. 2:18others to spin it. Because you have a
78. 2:20story to tell. And a story that sells,
79. 2:23and a story that will help
80. 2:25>> I don't want it to BE MY STORY. I DON'T
81. 2:26WANT it to be my story.
82. 2:28>> WHETHER YOU WANT IT TO BE YOUR story or
83. 2:30not, that's your story. And you promised
84. 2:32her there would be no questions about
85. 2:34that part of her life. And when the
86. 2:36question [music] came up, you didn't
87. 2:37stop it. You allowed it to continue.
88. 2:39Neither of you acted in the manner that
89. 2:42you could have acted. That wasn't either
90. 2:44of your best interest. Case dismissed in
91. 2:46terms of the plaintiff, and case
92. 2:48dismissed in [music] terms of the
93. 2:49defendant.