LisaRaye says she was going for classy and blames the stylist for choosing the raunchiest pictures from the shoot.
In a recent interview with Honey Mag LisaRaye covers the usual topics people want to ask: What happened with her marriage? What's up with her and Rocsi from 106 and Park? Is she golddigger and what possessed her to shoot her latest spread in Black Men's Mag?
As for people thinking she's a Golddigger Lisaraye tells Honey:
The perception that they have of me — I could give less than a damn about. I say this to them. I dug for gold in high school. I’m a platinum girl now. I’m an international person. I don’t even like taking out the trash. I don’t dig for anything. I don’t have a garden either. Every relationship that you embark on is some kind of business relationship. You got to look at it that way. You got to protect yourself, not just from the man next door, or Uncle Sam, or the IRS, you got to protect yourself from anyone you’re in business with. So you better look for someone that’s going somewhere who’s trying to take you with them. Money attracts money. Power attracts power. You ain’t got to tell the white girls that. Look at Jackie Kennedy Onassis. She stepped from Kennedy to Onassis. Do you think she stepped from Kennedy to Burger King man? No.What happened with her marriage:
He [Michael Misick] had a child within our marriage with the same baby’s mother that he had his first child with, which I did know about. When a woman feels something is going on we go into that investigative mode. And when I did that, I got all of my ducks in a row and I brought it to him and said what is this all about? He explained it to me. I said to myself, ‘Is this worth me breaking up my new marriage for?’ It was deceitful but it wasn’t worth me breaking up my marriage at the time. But I had to think if I trusted him. Trust is a building process. So while we are trying to build the trust, so many things were happening with affairs and the corruption of governmental funds and then the Rocsi thing.What about Rocsi:
I’m never shocked, girl. I don’t put anything past anyone. I was very disappointed in the way it was handled. Because to me, if you’re going to do whatever you’re going to do… respect your [and my] home. Do that over there, not here. And the way it was done so publicly with people calling me saying, ‘Hey, you know I’ve seen pictures on the Internet in your backyard? And I see that she flew in and you flew out.’ I didn’t know that she knew my husband.About the Black Men's Mag Spread LisaRaye says:
Have you seen her since?
Have you heard that I’ve seen her? You will hear about it. I’m sure that you will.
I’m so upset about that because let me tell you they were not supposed to use that [cover shot] picture. I was sick on that photo shoot. It was 23 degrees out there in that dessert. I didn’t feel pretty. I didn’t feel sexy. I was just like let me try to pull this off. In the midst of that you get a couple pictures that [are] not appropriate. You should have enough tastefulness and integrity about yourself as a photographer and as a publisher [to say], ‘we are not going to use this shot because she was getting in to position. ‘We are not going to use this shot where her nipple is showing because that is not appropriate. We are not going to use this butt shot because she’s an older woman, she’s a mother, and she’s not Diamond. And that’s exactly what it was. If you look at my facial expression on the cover, it’s almost if I’m going “huh?” I was in the middle of fixing my hair. I’ve been there done that. It took me right back to my video vixen Diamond days, which is not fair to me. It’s not fair to a former first lady and it’s not fair to a single mother who’s an older woman now.
Have you taken any actions against the magazine?
I did speak with the publisher. He has been incredibly apologetic. He was totally a gentleman. It was not his fault. They used what they thought was going to be a moneymaker. They issued me a public apology. I will say this, it wasn’t the publisher. It was Marcus Blasingame. He’s a stylist at the magazine and was a long time friend of mine. So I couldn’t really understand why he did that to me. Throughout the whole photo shoot I was saying, “I’m not wearing any daisy dukes I’m too old to wear daisy dukes. No butt shots I’m not doing anything like that. I was so mad when I saw the cover and they used the same picture on the inside and they gave a poster away of that shot. I was like I am done. I’m embarrassed. I don’t want the young girls out there thinking that, that is something I would do.
