Pepa (salt N Pepa) abused by treach aka BRAD

[JadaRoss]

According to Pepa: I had spent years in denial, running, hiding and covering up for my ex-husband, who I will call "Brad." So many times I went places bruised and having to wear sunglasses or heavy makeup to cover it up. It was embarrassing but for some reason, I rationalized it to myself. He was sick and I was the only one who could make him healthy.

Actor/Director Charles S. Dutton tried to help me move on. He was the director on a movie, "First Time Felon," that Brad and I did together. It also starred Omar Epps.


Wasn't Treach in this movie? Hmmm.

One night Brad and I argued over nothing in particular and he slapped me in my face. He was usually careful about hitting me in my face, especially if we had an appearance or something to do. He had slapped me so hard that my cheek was swollen. The next day, the makeup artist did her best to cover it up but Charles Dutton noticed it.

He didn't really say much to me but he invited me to stay in his apartment for the night while he stayed somewhere else. Charles told me it might be a good idea to clear my mind and be alone.

After the movie wrapped, I got an invitation to hang out with a friend, her fiance was actor Omar Epps. They shared a beautiful house in the hills of California. The fun we had came to a halt when "Brad" showed up unexpectedly.
Omar told me, "Just hear him out, you don't take him back but he did come all this way."

I guess men stick together on things like this.

"Brad" put his stuff in my room, he really didn't have much to say. That night, I fell asleep in his arms. The next thing I knew, I opened my eyes and he's standing over me.

He screamed, "B**ch!, I want a divorce!"

He then grabbed my ring off my finger and threw it at me with all his might. It was like a five-carat diamond and it hit me right in the middle of my forehead.

He grabbed me and yanked me out of the bed. He started slamming me into the headboard. He picked me up by my throat, choking me and he slammed me into the footboard. I felt as if my back had cracked open on the hard metal.

He kept yelling, "F**k you, b**ch!" as he kept punching me.

He then banged my head into the wall several times and continued to choke me, I was scratching with my hands, trying to pull off because I thought he was going to choke me to death. He pulled me back by my hair and slammed me into the railing again. He was going crazy.

 

[JadaRoss]

Finally, the door swung open. Omar ran in and Kalima was right behind him, screaming and hollering for him to get off me.
Omar was trying to be real calm and cool. "Come on, man, Stop."

Kalima was calling Brad every name in the book and making him angrier but he let go long enough for me to make a run for it. I hit the door and headed to the stairs. He ran after me, and caught me at the top of the staircase. And, he had a handful of my hair with one hand and was choking me with the other one. I was practically dangling over these stairs.

Omar was screaming, "Man, let her go," she's not worth giving up your whole life. Let her go." Brad released his grip and I turned around and hauled ass out the front door. I ran down the streets screaming, "He's trying to kill me."

I know I woke up the whole neighborhood. But, a house two doors down opened its doors to me. I was beaten, bloody, half-naked and scared for my life. And while I knew I was never going back, I also wasn't strong enough to tell the truth, I couldn't press charges. I couldn't make him pay. So I lied.

Omar had taken Brad to a local hotel to get him away from me and the police. I didn't speak to him for a long time after that and I never went back.

According to Pepa: We were preparing for the video "Whatta Man," which went on to be one our runaway hits. The video featured these fantasy scenes where Cheryl, Dee Dee, and I got to make out with the men of our dreams. We sat around and made a list of the guys we wanted in the video. Cheryl and Dee Dee looked at me like "poor Pepa," because they knew I wouldn't have a choice.

"I guess Brad aka Treach," is going to be your fantasy man," Cheryl said, laughing. She even knew he would never allow me to make out with anyone but him. She was right. Cheryl got to make out with Tupac, the lucky girl! We all loved him and he was so thuggish.

He almost didn't make the taping of the video because the day before he had a shoot-out with the cops. We taped around it. But we were adamant that he had to stay. Our manager/producer Hurby was so image conscious that he was fighting us over it. He said he didn't want that kind of thug in our video. But we won the fight.

Tupac was cool. He was a good guy. I remember him telling me that he had never been in trouble with the law until he got into the music business-which he got into to have a better life. He had more drama around him as an artist than he ever had as a regular guy.

 

[JadaRoss]

Now ain't that some shit?" he said. "I ain't never had a record until I made a record." Once again, my career was going well. We had one smash hit after another. And once again, my private life was going in another direction altogether.

Brad aka Treach and I were fighting, breaking up, making up, fighting and starting all over again. This went on for years. The fights we had were crazy.

One time we were getting ready to go out. I was ironing a pair of jeans and he started in on me about something. It was always something, and the arguments always started over nothing, figments of his imagination or some perceived thing that I had said or done.


Suddenly, he stormed over to me and grabbed a handful of my extensions.

It always started with him pulling me by my hair. He would always go for the hair, I guess to get a good enough grip on me so he could smack me more easily. I wore a lot of micro braids back then. He would grab and pull on them so much that whole braids with plugs of my hair would come out. It's one of the reasons I wear lace-front wigs today because the hair around my edges never grew back.

I had a hot iron in my hand and he had a handful of my hair. I lifted the iron, which was natural and he said, "B**ch, you trying to burn me?" And he went crazy.

He grabbed the hand with the iron in it and was pushing the iron toward my face. I was struggling against him but he was too strong, and he ended up pressing that hot iron against my arm. I heard my flesh sizzling and the smell was sickening. I started screaming from the pain. He dropped the iron and I turned to run, and he went to grab me, his nail swiped across my eyeball and shredded my cornea.

I ended up in the hospital with a third-degree burn on my arm from the iron and a torn cornea. My eye was really bad, it was dripping pus, and I had to wear an eye patch for a while.

The doctors called the police. They knew that my injuries didn't happen the way I said (an accident). They wanted me to press charges and the police were trying to get me to tell what really happened. But I wouldn't.
When I got out of the hospital, I stayed with a friend.

Source: "Let's Talk About Pep," by: Sandy "Pepa" Denton

 

[JadaRoss]

According to Pepa: When I was released from the hospital after Brad aka Treach burned me with a hot iron and sliced my cornea. Salt came over. She was so sad for me, she said, "Come on, Sandy. You can't keep doing this."
I knew she was right. "Yeah, I'm through!"

I invited over a few of my girlfriends for a party, Salt included. A lot of people who knew what I was going through were happy that I had come to my senses. They couldn't understand why I stayed. I couldn't understand it either.
I was so free that I started dating. During my newfound single life, I met baseball great Gary Sheffield (2nd photo, above). A friend of mine had been trying to hook me up with this guy for the longest.

He was single at the time and she said, "I have someone that you must meet. He would be perfect for you."
When I met Gary, something was definitely up from the beginning. And things were going well until Gary started getting serious. Also, he didn't want a woman who liked to party too much and I loved to party.

He should have been the perfect type of guy for me because I needed a man like that because I needed to change my ways and perspectives on relationships. I needed that kind of stability in my life, but I wasn't ready for it.

I still accompanied Gary and a bunch of his friends to Jamaica after he won the World Series. We flew down on a private jet to celebrate. He even booked a villa at the Half Moon where we stayed and partied for a whole week. It was the most fun I'd had in a while.

When I got back, here comes Brad aka Treach. I was done but he said he was sorry.

I had a lot of male friends who were baffled by my staying with Treach. Sam Cassell (3rd photo) was one of my closest friends. He would say, "You haven't left that man yet?" You're not giving up Treach. Nobody is going to take you serious because you always going back and forth with him."

Sam knew me so well. He could see it even when I couldn't.

 

[a.mann]

Not reading all that shit

But I don’t have to much sympathy for a broad that willingly stays in a abusive relationship

Especially if she knows better and even worst has the money to ditch the nigga

Low self-esteem is a bitch

Bitch is low self-esteem

 

[JadaRoss]

Brad told me the same sob story about nobody loving him and how much he needed me. I know now that I listened because I had low self-worth and I put his needs before mine. Again, I decided I needed to stay and help him, that I could fix it and make it all better. I didn't seem to appreciate the things that I needed to fix on myself. I forgot all about me. I just wanted to fix his situation and make him happy.

Around this time, Brad never asked me to marry him. In Kansas, Spin came to me and told me he wanted to marry me. But he never got down on one knee and asked me to marry him.

Source: "Let's Talk About Pep," by: Sandy "Pepa" Denton

 

[JadaRoss]

Not reading all that shit

But I don’t have to much sympathy for a broad that willingly stays in a abusive relationship
Especially if she knows better and even worst has the money to ditch the nigga

Low self-esteem is a bitch

Bitch is low self-esteem

you can just take your time bruh

it;s worth the read i didnt know dude was the vicious against Pepa

dude could be Ike's Son

 

[a.mann]

you can just take your time bruh

it;s worth the read i didnt know dude was the vicious against Pepa

dude could be Ike's Son

I've heard and read her story before

 

[JadaRoss]

According to Pepa: Salt and I were on tour with Ice-T and a bunch of other acts. As usual, we were the only girls. We were all hanging out and Salt said something, I don't even remember what. But I know whatever she said, I thought she was making fun of me, and everyone was laughing. I was eating some grapes at the time, and when I looked around and saw everyone laughing at me, I spit my whole mouthful of grapes in Salt's face.

I remember her picking them off her face, and I was standing there looking at her, waiting for her to do something. She just said, "I can't believe you spit grapes in my face."
I was so emotional, I just did it. There was nothing to say. I was hot. I'm not proud of it. I remember her sliding the mess off her face. It was amazing how they just stuck there. It stopped the laughter, though.

Another incident occurred with Play from Kid & Play. We were hanging out at Denny's after a show and Play tried to clown me at the table. He said what he said, and of course everyone started laughing. I got up and grabbed him by his collar and dragged him down the whole length of the table, knocking everybody's food and drink onto the floor.

As cool as Spin and I were, we would get into it from time to time. Our fights were mostly over dumb things such as clothes. Stylists would bring clothes and shoes and accessories for us to select for a show, and Spin and I wore the same size clothes and shoes. She would always get to the clothes first and pick the best stuff, leaving me with the scraps. Now here I am Pepa of Salt-N-Pepa and I have to pick over scraps?

I wasn't some background person. I should have gotten first dibs on everything.

I usually didn't say anything and just let it go. I figured, I didn't want to whip Spin's ass and have her leave the group, and then we wouldn't have a deejay.


But, one time, I had enough. We had an appearance and once again Spin got to the clothes first. I knew ahead of time what was coming and I had my eye on these sneakers. I got down there late and there was Spin with the sneakers.

I lost it. "Spin, you're going to have to hand those over." "No!" she said. She wasn't trying to hear that. She put them on her feet. "I'm about to count to three, and you better get them off or I'm going to take them off!"

Salt knew what would happen if I got to three. She jumped in to stop things. "Please give Pep those sneakers!"
It must have clicked to Spin then that I was dead serious and she gave me those sneakers.

Source: "Let's Talk About Pep," by Sandy "Pepa" Denton

 

[JadaRoss]

According to Pepa: "On November 7, 1991. That was the day Magic Johnson stood before the world and announced that he was HIV-positive. That announcement rocked me to the core.

Back then, all anybody knew was that if you had HIV, you had AIDS, and if you had AIDS, you were going to die this horrible death where you would waste away. That was what the public knew. And nobody wanted to get AIDS. I also knew you caught AIDS from either drug use or through sex."

"Around this time I was in a relationship with NBA player Derrick Coleman (3rd photo). He played for the New Jersey Nets and was a star."

"I met him at Nell's, this nightclub in Manhattan. I was hanging out with Janet Jackson at the time. She was so cool. When she was in town, she would call me and we would meet at a club and party all night. Janet loved to dance and party, and you know how I love to party. She was with Rene at the time, and I remember he wouldn't let her out of his sight. So I was there with Janet and Rene and I saw this tall, handsome guy from across the room. I didn't know who he was, I just knew he was tall. He figured I must be somebody since I was hanging out with Janet Jackson."

"He came over and started talking to me and we exchanged numbers."
"Derrick Coleman was good to me. He was my baby. He wasn't like any of the men I was used to dating. He wasn't a thug and he wasn't very street. He was a real man but he was nice and gentle and respectful."

"So, why did I go and mess that up? I blame Magic Johnson. After he made that announcement about having HIV, I started thinking negatively about all NBA players. I know it was dumb of me."

"But, I was thinking, Derrick was a ballplayer, and I'd heard that those guys in the NBA all shared women and were loose sexually. Wilt Chamberlain even talked about his 20,000 women and now Magic was talking about HIV and AIDS."
"I started asking Derrick to wear a condom. He wasn't having that. So I started making excuses for why I didn't want to see him. I stopped coming around and taking his calls."

"Later, I tried to work with him. I bought colorful condoms and condoms that heated up. I was trying to get creative to get him to wear them. But when he wouldn't wear a condom, I was through."

"I panicked. Years later, look at Magic. All alive and healthy. And Derrick went on to be happy and I always wondered what-if. Had I stayed with Derrick, I would never have been with "Brad."

"I traded in a man who would have been down for me until the end. And, I ended up with "Brad."

Source: "Let's Talk About Pep," by Sandy "Pep" Denton

 

[JadaRoss]

According to Pepa (Setting the Record Straight): I ended up in one of those National Enquirer type of magazines under a headline: "Is Pepa A homewrecker?" This had something to do with the night Lisa (Left Eye) Lopes burned down the house of former NFL player, Andre Rison.

Andre and I never messed around. I'm innocent of that crime. But I did know him and we were really cool. Salt-N-Pepa used to do a lot of NFL spots for Monday Night Football. I met Andre at one of these parties and we hit it off. We went bowling and were bugging out and laughing. I would bump into him from time to time in different clubs. And that was it.

One night he and Lisa were watching TV and my video comes on, and he gets all excited and says something like "Pep, that's my girl!"

Maybe she was feeling that he was trying to holler at me and she didn't like it. That very night, we had a concert at the Fox Theater in Atlanta, and Andre and Lisa came to the show. I got them backstage tickets and the whole nine.

After the show, I was backstage and I left my dressing room for something. At the same time, Andre was nowhere to be found. Lisa came into my dressing room looking for him, and when she didn't see me and couldn't find him, she jumped to conclusions.

She finally found him and they went home and argued that whole night. He told me he couldn't take it anymore and left. When he did, that's when the teddy bears and the sneakers went in the Jacuzzi with the lighter fluid and the whole house got burned to the ground.

Source: "Let's Talk About Pep," by: Sandy "Pepa" Denton

 

[JadaRoss]

"WAS PEPA'S EX-MAN INVOLVED IN THE SHOOTING OF 50 CENT?"

According to Pepa: "I met him at the Red Parrot, I brought my new Merceds by to show my sister Dawn. I was at the bar talking with Dawn when I noticed a guy staring at me. The first thing I noticed was how cute he was. He was also well dressed but his swagger is what got me."

"He came over, introduced himself as Tah Tah and asked what I was drinking?" I could tell he was somebody. He spent the rest of the night making me laugh."

"Everything between us happened so quickly. Most guys I went out with during this time were caught up in me being Pepa. He didn't seem to care. Tah Tah had his own world and his own life that didn't have anything to do with me."

"Yes, he was a street hustler and you would have thought I would have learned my lesson by now, but I hadn't."
"Tah Tah drove a sporty BMW and I drove a Benz. We often raced down Liberty Avenue."
"He took me to Vegas a few times and he walked away with $90,000 at the blackjack table."

"Tah Tah was a winner. He had his own business. You know every street hustler back then had a business, whether it was a sneaker spot or a corner store or a nightclub." I was also impressed that he never wanted to live with me because he had his own place in Jamaica Estates."

"At this time, I was really feeling my stardom but Tah Tah wouldn't let me rule over him." This made me want him even more. I became obsessed with him. I wanted to be with Tah Tah every day, every waking moment.
I was completely sprung.

I ended up getting pregnant. I couldn't wait to tell him. I went over to the Red Parrot and I just blurted out: "I'm pregnant!"
I was all smiling, expecting him to jump up and give me a huge hug and propose to me. Instead, nothing happened.

He had no expression on his face and he gave me no reaction. I could see that not only was he not ready for my big announcement, but he also didn't like it. Boy, did it turn my world upside down.

I told him I wanted a ring. Later, he came to my house and gave me a box with a ring in it but he told me "it's just a friendship ring because he felt pressured to give me a ring."

He grew more and more distant and eventually he stopped coming around. I had to track him down. He wouldn't even return my calls. The next thing I knew I was hearing about him and some girl named Tasha. When I confronted him at the Rucker's basketball tournament, he admitted that he was seeing this girl.

This didn't stop me from calling him to invite him to hang out with me. He wouldn't hang out with me and one time Tasha told me to stop calling me because he no longer wanted me.

 

[JadaRoss]

A few weeks later, somebody called and told me Tah Tah was at this club in Queens and got shot. When I got to the hospital, Tasha was sitting there with her family and friends. When they saw me, I could see they wanted to fuck me up. It was nothing for girls to jump another girl even if she was pregnant but they held back.

A month or two before the baby was born, Tah Tah invited me to Vegas. I was so happy. I paid for the room and as we were checking out, I saw the phone bill. He spent practically the whole time on the phone to Tasha. I found out that she agreed to let him take me to Vegas as long as he didn't touch me.

He kept his promise to her. I also found out she was pregnant.

The day I went into labor I called Tah Tah. He promised to be in the delivery room with me but he never showed up. He showed up the next day but after that, he didn't come around.

I named our son Tyran, which is Tah Tah's real name. I named the baby Tyran partly because I wanted to solidify the connection to Tah Tah. But I also did it to spite his girlfriend. "Yeah b**ch, I had his first son and he's got his name!"
Tah Tah is now in prison (at the time of this book). He got tangled up in some mess involving Murder, Inc. and the drug dealer Supreme.

50 Cent also named Tah Tah in a record as one of the people who might have shot him. Pepa adds: I don't know about all of the that.

Our son talks to Tah Tah frequently, which I encourage.

Source: "Let's Talk About Pep," by: Sandy "Pepa" Denton

 

[JadaRoss]

According to Pepa: Salt & Pepa were headliners for a tour that featured M.C. Hammer and Will Smith, who was calling himself the Fresh Prince.

"I thought Will was really cute and we would hang out a lot on the road. He liked to take care of me and never let me spend a dime. He was that kind of guy, real generous. I remember when they won their first award, he asked me to go out with him afterward. He was so excited. We were walking along the street getting ready to grab something to eat, and he just gave this homeless guy $100 dollars."
"I sometimes kick myself when I think about what could have been. He was so nice to me, but I really wasn't feeling him. I guess I couldn't appreciate a nice guy like Will Smith. He wasn't thug enough. I was attracted to thugs and hoodlums, the jerks and mean guys. Will was too nice too me."

"I liked people like Louis Burrell (Hammer's brother). He was rough, he was street and he didn't pull any punches. He would walk around with a cane and pimp hat. He always referred to women as b**ches." Even with all that, I liked him."

"One night Louis and I were hanging out and the talk got around to business. Louis was all about the business. He asked me about my deal. And I told him what little I knew.


We were selling millions of records, and Cheryl and I were splitting six points. I didn't understand the whole point system and didn't know whether that was good or bad. But I soon found out."

"You dumb b**ch!" he said. And Louis began to break it down. After he broke it down, I called a meeting with our management team. Around this time, they found out that Suge Knight was trying to get us to come over to Death Row, so they renegotiated our deal and I thank Louis for that."

Source: "Let's Talk About Pep," by: Sandy "Pepa" Denton

 

[JadaRoss]

According to Pepa: "I got caught up in some mess when Spinderella married former NBA basketball star Kenny Anderson (2nd photo). I used to rent out a night at this pool hall in Manhattan. It was a high-roller thing and I charged a cover of $50 just to get in."

"I used my celebrity to get people to come out and gamble, and I did pretty well. Everybody wanted to play on my table, which had a $500 fee just to get in."

"Kenny Anderson used to come there with his boys, and he would flirt with me. He would get to drinking and try to grab on me. My friends would be there and see him and ask, "Isn't that Spin's man? What's he doing?"

"He was even trying to kiss me and kept asking me to go for a walk with him. I kept pushing him away and he kept coming."
"This put me in an awkward situation.

Should I tell Spin? Hell no, I wasn't going to tell her. I knew I wouldn't let him cross the line, and I chalked it up to his drinking, so I let it go. Why stress her out about it? One time we were all in the club together and he started with that flirting stuff again. This time Spin must have seen him. After that she started throwing shade my way. Her friends were throwing some shade, too."

"It's really hard to work with someone who has an attitude with you. This went on for a while until I finally decided to confront Spin. We were on a plane heading to Los Angeles for an appearance and I said, "I noticed you have been a little chilly toward me lately. What's up?"

"She told me that Kenny had told her that I had been coming on to him, and he said she should watch out for me. I couldn't believe it. He must have figured that he would throw it onto me because he was already busted. So he twisted it. And she believed him."

"She continued acting shady towards me until she busted him cheating on her with other women and his alleged drinking got out of hand; she also had a whole bunch of drama with him. Then she and I were cool again."
Source: "Let's Talk About Pep," by Sandy "Pepa" Denton

 

[JadaRoss]

"My Scarface"
According to Sandy "Pepa" Denton: I met this young, handsome, and rich-just my type of guy who was from around my way just before I got involved with Salt-N-Pepa. He was from the streets but he had some class."

"His name was Tommy and he owned it all. He had a Laundromat, a sporting goods store, a grocery store, a social club. He even sponsored neighborhood basketball leagues and peewee football clubs."
"He was also a drug dealer."

"He was also a little jealous, sometimes a lot jealous but even that was attractive because it told me that he really cared about me."

"With him I was living the rock-star lifestyle before I was really a rock star. Even when Salt-N-Pepa had that first album, I still wasn't making the kind of money that recording stars made. I was still living at home and still driving a Datsun."

"Tommy had a big house in a rich area of Long Island. He was the first person I even knew who had a Rolls Royce. He had several luxury cars, including a BMW and a Ferrari. He even had a yacht, which he kept in California. He was also the first person I knew to have a cell phone. Back then, cell phones were big and clunky and came in one color. Few people had cell phones because they cost so much.


Tommy had several." And, he had one he carried around that he said was just for me.
"I only use this phone to call you," he told me. "This is your special, private line and nobody else can call me on this."
"Tommy was fly. He was flashy but not the way a lot of dudes were flashy with the gold chains."
One day he told me, "Baby, I'm going to buy you your own island."

"One evening, I got a call from Tommy, he had just gotten back from spending a few days in California on business."
"Baby, get ready because I'm coming to get you," he said."
This voice came out of nowhere and said, "Don't go with him."

Some people call it intuition, but to me it was just God or a spirit from God telling me not to go.
Anytime I ignored this voice, I always regretted it.

I told Tommy, "I'm really tired. I think I'm going to stay in tonight."
"He was quiet for a minute on the other end. Then he said, "What's wrong with you?" "Nothing, I'm just tired. I'm not feeling well.

 

[JadaRoss]

A few hours later, a friend called and screamed, "Girl, turn on the TV!" Tommy's on TV."

I turned on the news and there was Tommy, with a blue hoodie over his head, being led away in handcuffs. A whole SWAT team was at his house. Had I been there that night, I would have been arrested, too. Everyone in that house was arrested. And every single one of them did time. They tried to subpoena me but I didn't know anything. Tommy purposely never talked about his business around me and I purposely never asked.

The authorities were really trying to get me, though. They even showed me pictures of me. They must have been following him for months, staking him out. It was shocking seeing myself in those blurry photos.

His trial was crazy. Tommy didn't get a plea bargain, no break, no nothing. He was convicted of tax evasion and money laundering and conspiracy to sell drugs. He was sentenced to 35 years in Federal prison. No chance for parole. He was only 25. He's still in prison today.

The authorities even found $3 million dollars on his property. Through this whole ordeal, Tommy wanted to see me but my family told me to stay away from him. Years later, people from around the way would say, "Tommy's looking for you." He still wanted me to visit him in prison, years later but I couldn't bring myself to do it.

His previous girlfriend got arrested and had to serve about five years. She must have known something. She was with him when he was coming up in the game. I was glad I was spared. That could have ruined all my plans before I even got started.

Source: "Let's Talk About Pep," by Sandy "Pepa" Denton

 

[a.mann]

cut it out kid

 

[allreasoned_out]

There's so much smh material here I don't know where to start.

 

[DarcSkies]

BLah blah blah feel sorry for me

Blah blah blah Im not going to get into how I attract these type of men

Blah blah blah I coulda had Will Smith but I wanted my ass whooped instead

Blah blah blah blah domestic violence is an epidemic

Blah blah blah i'm a victim

Blah blah blah it doesnt matter what i did

Blah blah blah I'll never admit i was my worst enemy not him

Fuck that bitch....