XxAxX said:

purplethunder3121 said:

Especially because he isn't here to defend himself.

personally, i am feeling ambivalent about this book. i really admire Mayte and what she's accomplished in life, and i think it's her right to tell her story.

but i also feel sad because i think we will find out things about prince that were personal, and maybe unflattering.

we all have unflattering sides, and do things we wouldn't want splashed out in a widely read book. and even though prince was a public figure, the parts of his life thus exposed to public scrutiny were personal and should be kept that way.

then again, Mayte has the absolute right to say what she has to say and tell her own story, even if other people decide in their minds that her words and exposure of her life with prince are 'trashy' or 'classless' .

so.... ambivalent here... i don't want to read the book right now, might not ever do so. but good for Mayte anyway

[Edited 3/16/17 17:43pm]

Honestly, I'm looking at Tyka's reaction to the whole thing. So far she seems supportive.

morningsong said:

XxAxX said:

personally, i am feeling ambivalent about this book. i really admire Mayte and what she's accomplished in life, and i think it's her right to tell her story.

but i also feel sad because i think we will find out things about prince that were personal, and maybe unflattering.

we all have unflattering sides, and do things we wouldn't want splashed out in a widely read book. and even though prince was a public figure, the parts of his life thus exposed to public scrutiny were personal and should be kept that way.

then again, Mayte has the absolute right to say what she has to say and tell her own story, even if other people decide in their minds that her words and exposure of her life with prince are 'trashy' or 'classless' .

so.... ambivalent here... i don't want to read the book right now, might not ever do so. but good for Mayte anyway

[Edited 3/16/17 17:43pm]

Honestly, I'm looking at Tyka's reaction to the whole thing. So far she seems supportive.

Have you seen a comment about it on her Facebook.

PennyPurple said:

We are grown adults, I don't think the thread needs to be locked, just because people don't like the topic of the thread.

I agree but when Prince bashing is taking place some folk get special treatment.

laurarichardson said:

annalizer said:

laurarichardson said:

morningsong said:

Honestly, I'm looking at Tyka's reaction to the whole thing. So far she seems supportive.

Have you seen a comment about it on her Facebook.

No, I don't have Facebook but there are other ways of giving support.

youneveransweryourphone said:

youneveransweryourphone said:

laurarichardson said:

Really stop with the psychological nosense. No one was holding her prisoner. Do some of you even think about this stuff before you type it. She worked for him for 4 years and them married him but she had no idea about what he was like. She was around when he openly juggled other women but he hypnotized her and she could not leave. I want to sell some of you the Brooklyn bridge.

Are you kidding me with that? People get trapped, especially women, in Svengali like situations or have Stockholm syndrome. Absolutely 100% possible. I don't think it was a severe case, but she was definitely bound to him in an unusual way. She always had adults directing her one way or the other. We used to watch her dance in Germany and her stepdad would stand guard. It all seemed like she was just everyone's puppet.

Do you realize that are screen shots from her Instagram were she is cussing people out and saying he will always be her husband? Her friends are harrassing people on line. I think she has serious problems and I do not think it has anythign to do with Stockholm syndrome. She was a grown women free to leave him at anytime but she hung around for almost a decade. Something is really wrong with her and I think it is all starting to come out.

laurarichardson said:

--I have had two and I was not given any pain killers to take home on average you are in the hospital for 3 days and you can have your pain meds while you are in the hospital. I do not understand why she would have a whole bottle of Vicoden and even she speculated that he may have taken them to stop her from taking to many. You realize that this book is out on line so I actually know some of the crazy crap she is saying and you do not. I am also not the only one questioning her since she was drunk on YouTube. [Edited 3/16/17 17:57pm]

I've had two C-sections and each time I was given a script

for Percocets to take home even though I didnt ask for painkillers.

Just saying.

ISaidLifeIsJustAGame said:

laurarichardson said:

--I have had two and I was not given any pain killers to take home on average you are in the hospital for 3 days and you can have your pain meds while you are in the hospital. I do not understand why she would have a whole bottle of Vicoden and even she speculated that he may have taken them to stop her from taking to many. You realize that this book is out on line so I actually know some of the crazy crap she is saying and you do not. I am also not the only one questioning her since she was drunk on YouTube. [Edited 3/16/17 17:57pm]

I've had two C-sections and each time I was given a script

for Percocets to take home even though I didnt ask for painkillers.

Just saying.

I was not given anything to take home and I was not in pain after 3 days in the hospital. You know their is a pic going around of her smoking a hooka. I wish I was making this stuff up but she is really posting this kind of stuff.

morningsong said:

laurarichardson said:

Have you seen a comment about it on her Facebook.

No, I don't have Facebook but there are other ways of giving support.

how I have not seen any comments from his family.

laurarichardson said:

lastdecember said:

Well everyone is entitled to their opinions, I have to disagree. Mayte has the right to share what she wants to share just as PRINCE had the right not to. Just because he may have told her to keep quiet, she is a human being. The thing we forget is how much more PAINFUL it is for the mother to lose a child than a father, also not to forget she also miscarried once i believe later on in their marriage. To have OPRAH in your house and then have MAYTE who was at the time barely 23 that is not an age where she is able to cope with this better, literally weeks after the child is dead, Oprah is in the house and she is instructed to "keep hush" and "hold it together", granted that was his thing to do, for the camera for his world he felt that was right and I always respected him for not letting the public in, but 20 years later after PRINCE has passed this story coming out or MAYTE breaking her silence is not disrespectful or harmful to anyone. Fact is the 90's were an era people thought PRINCE was "crazy" "insane" "spoiled" etc.. though us loyal fans stuck with me all through it, the public and mainstream dismissed him. As I said before general public never knew there was a child, and almost NONE knew he had another wife, barely half knew Mayte.

"The thing we forget is how much more PAINFUL it is for the mother to lose a child than a father"

Well that is it in a nutshell. His feelings don't mean shit to her and probaly never did and they mean nothing to anyone on this board. Wow glad you had the balls to admit it. Fathers feelings don't matter. Whoa!!!

FIRST of all you read all that where?? Did I say his feelings don't matter?? Basically every quote I hear here is that she needs to shut the fuck up because "he" didnt want that known. Which is basically saying HER feelings do not matter. OK fact is that when the child died Mayte was a child herself, sorry but she was, she was with this man since she was 16, her was her love, first love, first real love and was thrust into the spotlight, and then this happenend. PRINCE had his own way to handle it and he chose that, but he also CHOSE how she had to deal with it. TO ask Mayte age 23 who just lost her child and YES so did he and no one is saying that he did not grieve, but to tell her to put a brave face for fucking stupid ass OPRAH, that interview should have been cancelled. I mean did anyone DOG Prince about the fact that he was selling a record and trying to keep that on track instead of worrying about his wife's losing it. Mayte stayed behind while he toured after their child's death to keep the press away pretty much, that I am sorry is a little selfish of us to understand why he did that, which I do but to dismiss her as nothing is what most here are saying to do.

laurarichardson said:

morningsong said:

No, I don't have Facebook but there are other ways of giving support.

how I have not seen any comments from his family.

Exactly, not even negative ones. But Tyka is doing an interview basically the same people who did Mayte's interview, doesn't that strick you any kind of way?

lastdecember said:

laurarichardson said:

"The thing we forget is how much more PAINFUL it is for the mother to lose a child than a father"

Well that is it in a nutshell. His feelings don't mean shit to her and probaly never did and they mean nothing to anyone on this board. Wow glad you had the balls to admit it. Fathers feelings don't matter. Whoa!!!

FIRST of all you read all that where?? Did I say his feelings don't matter?? Basically every quote I hear here is that she needs to shut the fuck up because "he" didnt want that known. Which is basically saying HER feelings do not matter. OK fact is that when the child died Mayte was a child herself, sorry but she was, she was with this man since she was 16, her was her love, first love, first real love and was thrust into the spotlight, and then this happenend. PRINCE had his own way to handle it and he chose that, but he also CHOSE how she had to deal with it. TO ask Mayte age 23 who just lost her child and YES so did he and no one is saying that he did not grieve, but to tell her to put a brave face for fucking stupid ass OPRAH, that interview should have been cancelled. I mean did anyone DOG Prince about the fact that he was selling a record and trying to keep that on track instead of worrying about his wife's losing it. Mayte stayed behind while he toured after their child's death to keep the press away pretty much, that I am sorry is a little selfish of us to understand why he did that, which I do but to dismiss her as nothing is what most here are saying to do.

I completely agree Laura. She is relating her experience. Hers. It matters not that he would not want her to tell it. They have not been married for years and sadly he is dead. The dead don't get to boss others around and control their actions. If they could, hardly any good histories would be told, and important figures, like Prince, would vanish in time.

morningsong said:

Militant said:

PennyPurple said:

rogifan said:

PennyPurple said:

I don't have twitter, does it say what cities she'll be in? Hopefully one will be in Kansas City.

New York, LA, Miami and San Francisco.

Thank you.

LOVESYMBOLNUMBER2 said:

laurarichardson said:

laurarichardson said:

morningsong said:

Exactly, not even negative ones. But Tyka is doing an interview basically the same people who did Mayte's interview, doesn't that strick you any kind of way?

No, because the T.v program made have been produced by a some production company that had nothing to do with the mag. If I hear or see Tyka say this is a great book okay she is then endorsing. I have some other stuff about Mrs. Mayte that I will post later. Not good 🙄

Why is what Mayte doing so important to you?

muleFunk said:

I've said before that I have no problem with Mayte writing a book I have a problem with the timing of the book. She's had 17 years to write the book.

No she didn't, because Prince wouldn't have allowed it, and would have fought it tooth and nail, if it had anything to do with him and his life. Why do you think she never wrote a book while he was alive? Some say that she didn't speak much about Prince or their life together on the show Hollywood Exes, do you really believe that it was because she just didn't want to? Heck no, I'll bet Prince had something to do about that, and that's why she didn't speak much about him or their marriage on the show. We all know that Prince didn't play when it came to certain things, and he would sue you in a heartbeat if he didn't like something. Mayte knows that Prince is dead now, and there's nothing he can do, so that's why she wrote a book now, well that, and let's face it, money.

I am kind of disturbed by a picture I just saw of Mayte with her mom on her instagram page. Her mom is wearing the Prince symbol. Didn't she badmouth Prince on that Hollywood Ex's show...saying something like she respected him as an artist but thought he wasn't a good husband for her daughter and too controlling. I wanna say--- Really, talk about hypocrisy. This lady sent a tape to Prince of her daughter in the first place, allowed him guardianship, didn't seem to speak against the marriage, appeared on the same Oprah show that her daughter was supposedly forced to be on (she wasn't married to him or under contract--why was she there?) and now is wearing his symbol. And wasn't there some story about her not paying rent on some apartment Prince got for her? She sure didn't mind his controlling his daughter earlier on.

I thought Prince didn't make sense sometimes. Either this women had extremely mixed feelings about her son in law or she is kind of full of shit.

1contessa said:

muleFunk said:

I've said before that I have no problem with Mayte writing a book I have a problem with the timing of the book. She's had 17 years to write the book.

No she didn't, because Prince wouldn't have allowed it, and would have fought it tooth and nail, if it had anything to do with him and his life. Why do you think she never wrote a book while he was alive? Some say that she didn't speak much about Prince or their life together on the show Hollywood Exes, do you really believe that it was because she just didn't want to? Heck no, I'll bet Prince had something to do about that, and that's why she didn't speak much about him or their marriage on the show. We all know that Prince didn't play when it came to certain things, and he would sue you in a heartbeat if he didn't like something. Mayte knows that Prince is dead now, and there's nothing he can do, so that's why she wrote a book now, well that, and let's face it, money.

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purplerabbithole said:

I am kind of disturbed by a picture I just saw of Mayte with her mom on her instagram page. Her mom is wearing the Prince symbol. Didn't she badmouth Prince on that Hollywood Ex's show...saying something like she respected him as an artist but thought he wasn't a good husband for her daughter and too controlling. I wanna say--- Really, talk about hypocrisy. This lady sent a tape to Prince of her daughter in the first place, allowed him guardianship, didn't seem to speak against the marriage, appeared on the same Oprah show that her daughter was supposedly forced to be on (she wasn't married to him or under contract--why was she there?) and now is wearing his symbol. And wasn't there some story about her not paying rent on some apartment Prince got for her?

I thought Prince didn't make sense sometimes. Either this women had extremely mixed feelings about her son in law or she is kind of full of shit.

1contessa said:

No she didn't, because Prince wouldn't have allowed it, and would have fought it tooth and nail, if it had anything to do with him and his life. Why do you think she never wrote a book while he was alive? Some say that she didn't speak much about Prince or their life together on the show Hollywood Exes, do you really believe that it was because she just didn't want to? Heck no, I'll bet Prince had something to do about that, and that's why she didn't speak much about him or their marriage on the show. We all know that Prince didn't play when it came to certain things, and he would sue you in a heartbeat if he didn't like something. Mayte knows that Prince is dead now, and there's nothing he can do, so that's why she wrote a book now, well that, and let's face it, money.

Yes, Mayte mom badmouthed Prince on the show. She said that Prince was a good entertainer, but that she didn't like him as a person, and spat on the floor after, showing how she felt about him.

What a fvcking hypocrite? He didn't sue her though..it sounds like.

1contessa said:

purplerabbithole said:

I am kind of disturbed by a picture I just saw of Mayte with her mom on her instagram page. Her mom is wearing the Prince symbol. Didn't she badmouth Prince on that Hollywood Ex's show...saying something like she respected him as an artist but thought he wasn't a good husband for her daughter and too controlling. I wanna say--- Really, talk about hypocrisy. This lady sent a tape to Prince of her daughter in the first place, allowed him guardianship, didn't seem to speak against the marriage, appeared on the same Oprah show that her daughter was supposedly forced to be on (she wasn't married to him or under contract--why was she there?) and now is wearing his symbol. And wasn't there some story about her not paying rent on some apartment Prince got for her?

I thought Prince didn't make sense sometimes. Either this women had extremely mixed feelings about her son in law or she is kind of full of shit.

Yes, Mayte mom badmouthed Prince on the show. She said that Prince was a good entertainer, but that she didn't like him as a person, and spat on the floor after, showing how she felt about him.

laurarichardson said:

sounds about right for a mother in law

laurarichardson said:

PurpleMedley122 said:

laurarichardson said:

PurpleMedley122 said: A will has nothing to do with this book. A will would not have stopped her from writing this book. Where is the logical on this board?

Coming from the person who is wondering why a woman who just gave birth via c-section would be prescribed vicodin. My mom was prescribed pain pills each time after giving NATURAL birth to the 4 of us. It is completely common. Jesus, anything to deny Prince had a problem, huh?

"where's the logic"? indeed.....

If pain killers are handed out so easily, why is it so suspect if Prince was given pain killers for injuries? Mayte's book doesn't prove that Prince was taking pain killer in the 90's by the way, but it does prove that she was taking them.