LeToya Luckett Talks Destiny’s Child Break-Up & Matt Kemp
Posted by Media Outrage on April 30th, 2010
LeToya Luckett sat wrote a blog for HoneyMag.com about some very personal things. Peep game…
It feels like just yesterday when LeToya Luckett, along with LaTavia Roberson, split Destiny’s Child. In the ten years since, she’s emerged as a solo artist, boutique owner, and now actress with roles in Preacher’s Kid (out on DVD) and the upcoming feature film Killers with Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl. In between movies and albums, her love life also took a torrid turn when her alleged boyfriend, Matt Kemp, reportedly dissed her for Rihanna. There’s no better way to address these rumors than with her debut column for Honey.
LeToya speaks on her latest projects, the Matt situation, and the break-up with Destiny’s Child:
There was a time after Destiny’s Child broke up, when I was out of the spotlight. I was trying to figure out what to do. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to do music again — be in a group or go solo. Actually, the thought of going solo was very scary to me. I didn’t think I could do it and would get mad when people told me I should record an album by myself.
I wasn’t upset about losing a chance to go to the Grammy’s or any celebrity perks. It was the loss of the friendship that was difficult. That was the hardest part of the separation. These girls [Beyonce, Kelly Rowland, LaTavia Roberson] were my friends from elementary school. We went to church together, we hung out together.
To go from that to sitting across from each other in a courtroom and going through all that law stuff, was just crazy. You just kind of look at each other differently. That’s when I realized that the friendship had died. Figuring out how we were going to split assets and profits and all of that felt like a divorce. Right after the break up, I went to stay with my friend in Atlanta who had me in church Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. I was developing my relationship with God. It helped me understand that I didn’t create my path. I wasn’t stressing, I wasn’t worrying. I was just praying and letting Him reveal what he had for me.
God is so amazing. Recently, I ran into Kelly and we got to catch up briefly. It was one of those things where you never know how the other person is going to react. But it was relaxed. I think we’ve both gotten to the age where it’s like, Girl please! She even hit me up the other day to let me know she was traveling. I would love to have a close friendship again, but that’s on God’s time.
The experience taught me about how things can be manipulated in the public. Like with the situation with Matt Kemp. I think the blogs kind of created the whole relationship. We were friends – there was nothing more to it. When we went out, a lot of times we had lots of other mutual friends there, but people would single us out. I definitely thought he was cute, but it was never anything like that. They had it on blogs that we were dating and this happened and that happened – but that’s not it.
Right now, I am dating this work. It’s kind of hard to run into people you can trust. You just never know what their thing is or what they want to get out of the situation. At this point, I don’t want to get into dating. I’m focused on work and if he comes, that’s great.
I’m now based in Los Angeles. I moved here for acting. Between albums, I made the decision to come to Los Angeles and find an agent and have him direct what I do. My first audition was Preachers Kid. Thankfully, I nailed it and got cast for the role of Desiree. Four days before we went into production, I was cast for the leading role of Angie. I’d never done a film, let alone starred in one, but luckily, I had an amazing acting coach, Troy Roland, who helped me through it.
Read the rest of the interview right here.
April 30th, 2010 at 11:03 am
first bitches!!
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April 30th, 2010 at 11:05 am
letoya need 2 stop using beys name 2 stay relevent, its been 10 years, get over it
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Ms Tee Reply:
April 30th, 2010 at 11:30 am
I don’t think so, like she said she’s been over and done with that but the media can’t say her name without mention Destiny’s Child or Beyonce. She actually showed us she quit relevent without them, she still working and looks like she done well for herself. Bye the way girl can sang. Go team Letoya
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April 30th, 2010 at 11:43 am
Im glad 2 see her moving on and doing her own thing. Wish her all the success in the world she deserves it. But whatever happend 2 latavia i wonder if she could make it solo? Hmmm…… Maybe:)
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April 30th, 2010 at 3:09 pm
http://www.destinyschildrumors.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/14kwdi8-1.gif <—I absolutely love this .gif of them LOL
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Kanyade Reply:
April 30th, 2010 at 3:10 pm
Matt is sexy…dayum yaaaaaassssss he is
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Sapphire Storm Reply:
April 30th, 2010 at 3:21 pm
I’m at work and right when I clicked on that link I noticed her song with Luda started playing. It was so cute, like they were dancing to her song lol
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Kanyade Reply:
April 30th, 2010 at 7:00 pm
Awwww
April 30th, 2010 at 3:56 pm
There is life after Destiny’s Child…hoooray!!!
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Verbalism7 Reply:
April 30th, 2010 at 3:56 pm
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brynnrock Reply:
April 30th, 2010 at 4:13 pm
No doubt…move over Beyonce for sure.
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April 30th, 2010 at 8:18 pm
Cool beans.
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May 25th, 2010 at 8:39 pm
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