Momma Dee Talks Abusive Childhood And Dealing With Her Haters

By: Taren Vaughan

Momma Dee is known for letting her true feelings come out whether you like what she is saying or not. On Love and Hip Hop Atlanta, Momma Dee expressed her strong dislike for Diamond and began to grow not so fond of Erica after The Lil Scrappy child support drama went down and Shay “Buckeey” Johnson came into the picture as Scrappy’s new love interest, something that a tweet from Erica made appear as nothing but a front for the show. And Erica is well aware of the true problem that Momma Dee has with her. Yet and still, Momma Dee was one of the most animated cast members and has been more than willing to tell her story. Most recently, she did an interview for “Inside Her Story” with Jacque Reid on The Tom Joyner Morning Show with the first question of the interview being about Scrappy’s comment to her when he said that she was stuck in her old pimp ways and Momma Dee was asked if she took offense to what he said:

“It doesn’t insult me. Those days are long over. But the way I came at him when we were talking, when we were discussing about Shay and Erica. I told him “How does a playa play? All day everyday” The point of origin is that he should be open and honest with women and be real and keep it pimpin’”

To Momma Dee, “Keep It Pimpin’” simply means that she wanted him to keep it real with both Erica and Shay and not to hurt them with lies. Momma Dee’s childhood was also revealed as she admitted that her stepfather abused her, her mother and brother and that her mom kicked her out the house at the age of 16. Momma Dee has already addressed in other interviews that she did have a nursing degree and how she was left on crutches after being hit by a drunken 17-year-old boy. During this hard time in her life, a moment where she almost lost her life, Momma Dee said that the only people she could really count on were her friends because her family was nowhere to be found when she needed them:

“It took me three years to learn how to walk again. Now within those three years, nobody in my family came to boil a pot of water, came to do anything for me and my kids. A couple of friends and everything. I couldn’t work again because every five years, I would have to get a new hip. And then when you go into those type of surgeries, it takes like four or five months for you to even walk again…It was hard in those days…My son was there and my daughter was there to give me a bed bath…But then I had to come on food stamps and welfare. And it was hard. That wasn’t enough money to pay bills and put toys up under the tree and buy school clothes. Who was gonna do? And I’m not a begger so I went out there and I got it myself. Now, it wasn’t by force. It was by choice. So I went and got it. I am not glorifying that type of behavior that I did. But what I am saying is I had survived it…”

Even though being a pimp is heavily frowned upon by many people, Momma Dee says she still doesn’t want people to pass judgment on her because at the end of the day, they don’t know what she went through and she was just doing what she felt she had to do for her family.

Momma Dee also talked about how she was pimpin’ from her bed when she was unable to walk, saying that her h-es followed her orders at all times:

“They came in so I could control certain things from my mouth. See, any time you get inside the head, the tail gone follow”

And she even talked about the man who introduced her to the game:

“I had an older pimp called Sir Charles come to me and say “You need to get some paper and I can show you how to get some paper. So he took me under his wing and I studied under him for a few months. And then boom, it was on”

Momma Dee, known as “Lady Dee” when she was a pimp for 10 years, was learning all this at the same time she was trying to learn how to walk again, going from the bed, to a wheelchair, to crutches and to a cane.

Lastly, when asked about whether or not she feels bad about being an overbearing mother, Momma Dee flat out said “no” just like we thought she would. And that she will be that way until the day that she passes away:

“No, I don’t. Coming from the childhood that I had…The day I had my kids, I looked at them in the face and I said “Hi, I have waited nine months to meet you, I’m your mom”. And as your mom, I’m gonna love you, care for you, nurture you for the rest of my life. Because at the end of the day when they roll me in the casket…It’s done”