Cyntoia Brown seemed to respond to Pamela Long of the R&B group Total about her husband Jamie Long.
Brown is the woman who was accused of robbing and murdering Johnny Michael Allen in 2004 as a 16-year-old in Tennessee. She was tried as an adult in 2006, got convicted and was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of getting parole in 51 years.
Brown, who’s now 31 years old, admitted that Allen paid her $150 for sex and said she shot him after feeling threatened.
She was released from prison on August 7, 2019, after several celebrities, including Rihanna and LeBron James, mentioned her case on social media. Brown’s sentence was commuted to 15 years by former Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam.
As for Pam Long, she was married to Jamie Long, who’s formerly of the group Pretty Ricky, from 2013 to 2018 before divorcing. Brown then married Jamie Long while in prison after they began exchanging letters.
And in a statement she gave earlier this year, the Total singer accused her ex of marrying Brown for all the wrong reasons.
“This man is diabolical and he is such a manipulator,” said Pamela Long. “The way this man pursued this woman is the way he did me.”
“He came and found me using the same card, he was a Christian artist,” she added. “May the Lord God protect her and her money. It’s about who she is in the public eye and what she has. By her having this face in the media, it helps him to have a chance to be around what he deems as the elites.”
“Mr. Long may be able to hide behind his handsome looks of being a good man, but God knows the heart and exposure is coming,” said Long.
Brown responded to those words during an interview with Essence and said she chooses to ignore all of the outside talk.
“Social media has its good, but then it also has people who, like, just think that they know you,” Brown explained. “They invite themselves into your personal matters. There’s a certain element, if you put yourself out there in the public eye, like, there’s a certain part that’s brought under scrutiny.”
“When it comes to things like that, it’s like, these people ain’t in my house,” she added. “So I don’t give it much thought. Like, whenever that door closes and it’s just us, that’s what it is. I’m not going to allow it to affect [me], and my family feels the same way.”
