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not there, somebody else will be. I don’t want to say he wasn’t ready to have a baby but he had already just had a baby. When I met him he had two women pregnant… When I met him one was in the belly and then one had just dropped. So there were two babies born within a year or so apart. And we had just started dating…So three already, one had just came out and one was in the belly. That was five. Mine made number six. While I was with him he had two more. I know! I know! I don’t know I just guess I cared for him. I know it doesn’t make sense now.

How bad the abuse get?

I had five black eyes. Oh I was getting dragged on the floor, shot at…

What led to the shooting?

We partied…and I guess I don’t know what I always did. And I always say it couldn’t have just been me. So one night we was arguing, he went and got the gun and I just made it through the bathroom door and he shot at me and missed me by this (holds up measurement fingers) much. He shot at me. And you know what I did? I left the bullet in the hole. It was in the door and then it went through the side of the wall in the bathroom and I left it there for a while, just so he could see it. But he never tried to shoot me anymore. Thank God. But the beatings were…it was a lot.

You know what my grandmother said, eventually: ‘When a man beats you, he doesn’t like you. He has women issues and it starts probably with their mothers.’ And I said ‘You’re probably right.’

On their breakup…

Oh! I tried off and on. I would move out. Ok, yes, I would move down the street. Ok maybe I wasn’t trying to get too far away. But because we always got back together. We had been together for almost a decade. We would break up, I’d give him three months to sew his wild oats, thinking ‘Of course we’re going to get back together.’ And that didn’t happen. And I think his last wife, I just couldn’t do it anymore. It’s too much. I’d already waited out the babies, the baby mamas, the hookers, the hoes…I was growing up and I was just going, ‘It’s got to be something better.’

Was it for the money?

And it wasn’t about money because we (her family) were never broke. I never got with Dre for money because he didn’t have a driver’s license, a car or insurance…or a house. We lived with his Auntie, who I ended up calling mommy.

Was he helping financially with his child?

Yes…well, I had to take him to court but…well, that’s an issue right? You should never have to do that. But now they’re great.

If he just would have done the right thing, I wouldn’t have needed to go to court.

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[Source: Vlad TV]

This is a sad situation and it was in the best interest of both Michel’le and Dr. Dre to end that toxic relationship. We’re just glad that Michel’le was able to make it out alive to tell her side of the story today. Dr. Dre hasn’t spoken publicly about this as of yet, but we sincerely appreciate Michel’le for publicly sharing her story with everyone. Hopefully she is helping other woman build the strength to escape their abusive relationship.

If that bullet would have landed an inch or two over, this post would have been in celebration of the life Michel’le had and not the life she has; and Dre would never have become the billionaire he is now. Instead of creating his “Beats By Dre” headphones, he would have probably been serving a life sentence as a result of what would have happened after Michel’le got allegedly “beat by Dre.”

Now Michel’le’s hit, “Something in My Heart” seems to have a much deeper meaning now…