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do it individually.

“To just group us like we are nothing and nobody – I just don’t think it’s sincere,” she says, “treat us like we have names.”

“He’s selling a movie. I just think its good PR at the moment.

If scenes of domestic violence against her had been represented in the film, she says it wouldn’t have made a difference to how she feels.

Michel’le said Dre’s never apologized to her in private for the abuse she says she has suffered: “Back when he was beating me, he was a little bit kinder with it.

“It was a little different because we were a couple, so of course if he held me after he beat me I took that as a form of love.”

She said the violence lasted five or six years, even while she was at number one in the American billboard charts.

“I had to cover two or three black eyes for my videos, and one of the make-up ladies – she said you’ve got to stop letting him beat you.”

Michel’le added: “I thought he cared about me. I didn’t know any better. I just really thought that was what men do, I thought it was a form of love.

“When I was a little kid we got whipped. It was nothing new to me, I was used to it.

“I was co-dependent on him – he was my world. So you don’t just pack up and go.”

She said after the “beatings” the couple would act “like it didn’t happen”.

“I was very quiet back then. It became normal to me,” she says, “I used to say it was my fault every time I got beat. Why would he just come in and want to beat me?

“One night I baked him chicken and I didn’t make enough. He beat me because I didn’t have another piece of chicken.

“It became that kind of relationship. I would move out for three or four months and come back. We just had a cycle.”

But she says they also had some “great times” together: “To me, he is my creative guru in the studio. We had a lot of fun. I’m not saying he was an all round bad guy.”

When she left him she didn’t go to the police: “We don’t really do that in our culture because I don’t want to see him go to jail. We had a son, and I cared about him.”

Twenty-four years have passed but she says she often thinks of the abuse: “I’ve been talking about it all the time – like at women’s shelters.

“I don’t want this new generation to think that its ok. I’ve never stopped talking about it. That’s what’s so funny about this coming up now.

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It sounds like Dr. Dre’s got some explaining to do, not necessarily to the world, but personally to the “women he hurt.”

This makes us wonder if Michel’le’s 90’s song, “Something In My Heart” was inspired by she and Dr. Dre’s relationship at that time. They were a couple when this song was blowing up the airwaves back in the day.