Tommie Lee Lashes Out at Fans as News of Child Abuse Charges Surfaces

“Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta” star Tommie Lee seemingly spazzed out at a fan who referenced the star’s recent indictment charges.

Lee, who’s facing multiple child abuse charges, took to Instagram on Sunday, Jan. 6, with a photo of herself and enigmatically mentioned her recent troubles with the law in her caption.

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“I Been through A storm and it turned me Into Ah G💪🏾,” the reality wrote.

A fan commented on Lee’s image and suggested that it was her “Gangsta” behavior that got her in trouble with the law in the first place.

“Wanna keep being a G (gangsta) gonna end up in gangsta s–t (jail),” the fan wrote.

Lee lashed out at the fan by saying, “Shut your ignorant a– up writing paragraphs about me while I’m dropping fly a– pics, captioned by A Bar off a song and bounce off the internet. … Get cha life together Fam you’ll never get paid for tryna understand me!”

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“Don’t pay the haters No MIND they enjoy your clap back,” one fan chimed in.

Another disagreed with Lee’s response, “You get ya life together fam and stop abusing ur daughter 🤦🏾‍♀️.”

“I’ll catch you in 54 years to discuss this. … You couldn’t wait to whoop yo child ass when she got outta school you had to go to her school and do the most now you facing 7 chargers and 3 are felonies 🤦🏽‍♀️.”

In October 2018, Lee was arrested on charges of felony aggravated assault, battery and child cruelty after allegedly slapping her daughter, slamming the child’s head into a metal locker and dragging her by the hair at Griffin Middle School.

Lee posted a $27,000 bail and was placed into custody anew just hours later after violating a court order that prohibited any contact with her daughter. She was charged with aggravated stalking and racked up an obstruction-of-an officer charge as well after refusing to come to the door of her home when officers arrived. This time she was booked without bond.

The reality star, who was indicted on Jan. 3 in Cobb County, Ga., on multiple charges including aggravated assault, child cruelty, battery, aggravated stalking and disrupting a public school was released from jail last month. She has yet to address her recent indictments, but she did seemingly take a jab at media outlets reporting her legal woes by writing on her Instagram on Monday evening, “Slow news day I see.”

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