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All eyes were on Wendy Williams on Monday morning as she returned to her daytime talk show after a weekend full of backlash and criticism being thrown her way regarding the Aaliyah movie via social media including her Facebook page and Twitter as we showed you HERE
Wendy left many dissatisfied after Monday’s ‘Hot Topics’ segment when she barely addressed the critique of the movie and only let her viewers know that although you can’t please everyone, the movie still snagged the second highest ratings for a cable movie this year, 3.2 million views to be exact.
“I see my Aaliyah movie broke the Internet this weekend,” she said on the show. “Everybody’s got an opinion. Well, I must admit, whether you loved or hated it, you watched. It was the second-highest rated movie on all of cable this year so far.”
Well following the show, Wendy didn’t get off the hook so easy as she was questioned about the movie and fan outrage and her thoughts on it during an interview with Associated Press according to reports.
“As a black woman, I was proud to show that Aaliyah came from a two-parent family, which many of us don’t.” She added that the film “painted R.Kelly—who married Aaliyah when she was only 15 while he was 28 at the time—in a more tasteful light than perhaps others would, and I think it was extremely tasteful not to show her going down in a fiery wreck.”
Wendy revealed that she thinks the backlash comes not from the quality of the movie but the fact that Aaliyah remains so loved by so many fans and that they are very sensitive when it comes to her.
“ I think when you do a movie about people’s favorite, whoever that favorite is, people are always going to have some criticism. You really can’t win for losing kind of sort of.”
Wendy also made it very clear that if she could do it all over again, she would and that regardless of public opinion she is proud of the outcome. She also points out that Angela Bassett is facing similar criticism for her orchestrating the upcoming Whitney Houston movie which airs in January.
