Brandy REVEALS How Her Mom SOLD Her To The Industry │ Wanya Morris GR00M3D Her?

and I felt like I didn't have the space to grow and to grow up in a in a in a safe way she said she was 15 and she had to keep it a secret cuz she was so young no no see see we we we did the thing we did the thing when she was like 16 17 around that time you know I was old enough to uh she was old enough to get it but was it legal in the state y'all was in the I mean we was always in different stat I can't believe that we produced you know someone like her so I consider myself the executive producer of Brandy Sonia is definitely a pit bull but I think she at the end of the day has bry's best interests at heart like many young Stars bry's career has been a roller coaster of highs and lows which seriously impacted her mental health to the point where Brandy said she even contemplated ending it all but it gets even darker rumor has it that bry's mother Sonia actually pushed her into relationships with older industry men including W Morris from Boys to Men who actually admitted to being intimate with Brandy when he had no business even talking to her so are bry's struggles a result of this early trauma she faced as a young star and did Sonia Norwood really sell her daughter to the industry let's dive in and find out I remember I was laying in bed and I was super depressed you know and I just was like just from Stardom to struggles Brandy was the Undisputed Queen of the 9s dropping hit after hit and Charming her way into America's Hearts as the face of the Beloved sitcom moaa and who could forget when she became the first black Cinderella in the 1997 liveaction TV adaptation starring opposite her Idol Whitney Houston someone who probably had a lot more energy and who really was Cinderella to me should play the part and I suggest Brandy she called me one day all hype I was like what's going on with me and she was like I I got this project Deborah and I have this project and we want you to do this movie called Cinderella and we want you to play Cinderella and I said I thought you were going to be Cinderella she was like I'm 33 now I'm not quite feeling like Cinderella no honey I'm not going to be Cinderella I want you to be Cinderella and I started screaming I run ran around the house I told my mom said Mom what do you want she's s under one condition that I was her very godmother but while Brandy seemed to Conquering the world the reality behind the scenes was far from perfect behind closed doors she was dealing with all types of drama and heartbreak pushed into the spotlight way too young Brandy faced Prejudice in the industry fell prey to older industry men survived a near fatal car accident dealt with depression and Ed you name it bry's been through it Brandy was born on February 11th 1979 in mome Mississippi to Willie Norwood a gospel singer and Cho director and Sonia Norwood who was climbing the corporate ladder as a district manager at H&R Block growing up in a strict Christian household bry's singing Talent shined early and she started singing gospel songs at just 2 years old in 1983 the Norwood Clan packed up and moved to Carson California and Brandy attended the famous Hollywood High Performing Arts Center she became obsessed with music after falling in love with Whitney Houston's voice at 7 years old but School wasn't exactly supportive of her dreams and she had to fight to get teachers to send her on auditions Brandy recalled asking teachers why aren't you sending me out on calls and they told her because you're not drop dead gorgeous Brandy was always insecure on how she looked she always wanted to look pretty and um and she never felt pretty she's got big eyes a big smile and people picked on her a lot and it kind of made her feel not so great about herself and I was teased only thing I had going for me was the fact that I could I could hit a couple notes so I believed in that and kept them moving however bry's mother Sonia was determined to turn her daughter into a superstar Sonia told people back in 1998 I knew Brandy was going to be a star the day she was born I told the doctor that he had just delivered a star and that she was going to be something one day talk about pressure but we'll get to Sonia Norwood in a second going back to bry's rise to stardom by age 11 she was already hitting the talent show circuit and performing with a youth singing group at public events things started heating up in 1990 when she signed with teaspoon Productions run by Chris Stokes and Earl Harris they got her work as a backing vocalist for the R&B boy band immature and even helped her record a demo tape fast forward to 1993 after some back and forth with East West records bry's parents secured her a deal with Atlantic Records Brandy was just 14 years old when she signed the deal and Sonia quit her job to manage Brandy full-time letting Chris Stokes go I can't believe that we produced you know someone like her so I consider myself the executive producer of Brandy I'm the executive producer Mrs Norwood decided to take control of her daughter's career and said goodbye to Stokes I feel like I would have been a better manager for Brandy meanwhile Brandy dropped out of Hollywood High and was tutored privately from 10th grade onward and just one year after signing with Atlantic bry's self-titled debut album achieved massive success selling over 4 million copies and producing three top 10 hits however it didn't take long before Brandy faced the ugly side of the industry the spotlight Brandy attracted and everything she accomplished in just a few years would take a decade or more but behind the scenes Brandy was going through it she was bullied by her moisha co-stars battled in Ed and event eventually it all became too much she ended up in the hospital after a nervous breakdown meanwhile Sonia Norwood kept pushing Brandy to keep going non-stop now Sonia always claimed she was just looking out for bry's best interests but there are plenty of stories that say otherwise sources close to the situation have spilled that Sonia was a stage mom from Hell controlling overbearing and toxic and allegedly she completely ignored bry's mental health struggles but it doesn't stop there the real bombshell is the Betrayal that cuts deep not only did Sonia allegedly turn a blind eye to bry's inappropriate relationship with W Morris from Boys to Men but she reportedly teamed up with W to take over bry's life and career the two of them practically took away bry's voice leaving her feeling defeated and with zero self-esteem so what really went down between Brandy and W Morris did Sonia Norwood actually push her young daughter into a relationship with an older man just to boost her career w Mor allegations in 1995 bry's career skyrocketed again when she landed the gig as the opening act for Boys to Men the hottest group around at the time this was a major opportunity for Brandy and it put her on the map in a big way I've always wanted to tour with this this major group or this major artist and it so happened to be my favorite group in the world but here's where things get dark Brandy was just 16 when she hit the road with Boys to Men and during that tour it was rumored that W Morris who was 22 at the time started a relationship with her to make matters worse W had actually met Brandy when she was just 14 or 15 years old and in 1994 they worked together on the hit single brokenhearted so while their collaboration was lighting up the charts there were some serious questions about what was going on behind the scenes between a very young Brandy and the much older W back then unfortunately these kinds of relationships were pretty much brushed off especially in Hollywood even though everyone knew it was wrong people just looked the other way misogyny was also running wild and instead of holding the adults accountable the media and folks in the industry actually blamed Brandy for supposedly chasing after W and stealing him from his girlfriend Adena Howard what's also gross is that Adena Howard who was the same age as W Morris actually pointed the finger at Brandy instead of her own boyfriend who was manipulating a teenager it's like Adena viewed the whole mess as just a love triangle between three adult completely ignoring the fact that Brandy was just a kid in the middle of this drama and get this Adena still doesn't seem to grasp how messed up the situation was in a clip that recently resurfaced from a 2019 episode of TV 1's unsung Adena talked about the whole Brandy and W situation and she described it as two young ladies who let their egos get in the way and were going through it about a guy seriously Brandy was in high school while while Adena and W were both in their early 20s for Adena to lump herself in with teenage Brandy and not even recognize that Brandy was failed by adults who were supposed to protect her is beyond disgusting two young ladies allow their egos to get in the way and were kind of going through it about a guy again keep in mind that Adena is the same age as W while Brandy was 16 this wasn't a love triangle this was a man manipulating someone he had no business talking to but if you thought the way Adena handled this situation was bad wait till you hear how W tried to justify his disgusting behavior when w appeared on The Breakfast Club in 2014 they confronted him about these allegations and he pretty much confirmed that he was dating Brandy when she was below her age he then agreed to her being jailbait said that they did the thing when she was 16 or 17 and mentioned that she was old enough in his eyes however he conveniently left out to mention how old he was at the time said her behind the music that that you broke her heart cuz you fell in love with somebody else I mean you only fall in love with somebody you only fall out of love with somebody else if somebody makes you fall out of love M you know so if that was the situation is that she is that's what she said then that's political I like that I can't you know I can't contest to her view about it I can just only live by my VI revolt revolt they they were saying she was really young when y'all dat yeah she was not not that young not not you know that's why but hold on that's why that's why that's why I stopped question hold on but that's why I stopped it and said that she she wasn't that young cuz I don't want y'all to think Boys to Men was young we no she said was I was young too she said she was 15 and she had to keep it a secret cuz she was no see see we we we did the thing we did the thing when she was like 16 17 around that time you know you so you were still a boy too yeah I was I wasn't too I wasn't old I wasn't like 38 years old or nothing like that I was old enough to uh she was old enough to get it okay but was it legal in the state y'all was in is the I mean we was always in different states they had a nomad relationship you know what I'm saying we just you know we we didn't do it in the states that it was legal it was illegal nice oh my gosh this is so disturbing to listen to and then the fact that everyone on The Breakfast Club is sitting there cracking jokes about W saying he made sure he took Brandy to different states so they could do the thing this is actually disgusting now fast forward to 2021 and W again decided to address those criticizing his relationship with Brandy by stating that they were close friends while she was young and then once she became of age they started to develop an intimate connection with one another however this time W brought up bry's mother Sonia claim claiming that Sonia reached out to him and it pretty much sounds like Sonia allowed this grown man to take advantage of her daughter toxic mom and bry's ongoing struggles so during Wan's Instagram live in January 2021 someone in the comments mentioned Brandy and W said he wanted to set the record straight on what really went down between them so he claimed that he and Brandy became friends after bry's Mom Sonia reached out to him and told him Brandy was a huge fan and once again W didn't want to say how old he was at the time he just said he wasn't 30 as if that makes it any better Brandy and I were friends in the beginning um her mother um and and reached out to me uh as well as my manager reached out to Brandy uh because Brandy was a big fan of of mine and um I was you know I was like wow that's amazing because this this uh young lady was pretty cool and I'm I'm I was young at the time I wasn't 30 nothing you know what I'm saying so don't don't get a Twist W then described Brandy as his Protegé and talked about how he helped her further her career by introducing her to different people in the industry and according to W over time his relationship with Brandy became intimate he said it was just two young people falling in love however he didn't mention that he first met Brandy when she was 14 or 15 and he was in his early 20s um what happened is we actually you know she became kind of like my little Protege you know what I mean I'm the actually the one that um introduced her to VA the Spears and and Ralph fqu they came to us to actually do a a TV show on the UPN Network and um I said well you know Brandy's down the hallway and you know she's basically uh she was on the Thea show okay cool introduced to that the the show came uh uh to fruition my mom and I wrote the the theme song to The Brandy show so Brandy and I were really really close uh once she turned of age we had been hanging around each other so much we've been hanging around each other so much that there became to be some sort of connection an intimate connection we actually fell in love now we were young that's what happens you're young and you fall in love you know what I'm saying especially when you have the ability to be around somebody a lot you begin to know things about them you know what I mean and they know things about you now when you're young make decisions based on your youth you know what I'm saying you don't make decisions uh uh uh moral decisions that put you in a whole position where you know that this is what's going to be for the rest of your life you're learning through everything and uh Brandy and I learned through a lot but it gets even creepier Believe It or Not W also talked about how he and bry's Mom Sonia arranged for Brandy to meet Kobe Bryant and go to prom with him even though W said Brandy was officially his girlfriend at the time when it came time for Brandy to go on her prom she was my girlfriend uh um Kobe Bryant Kobe Bryant was in was was graduating from high school that year Brandy was my girlfriend she had just graduated from Pepperdine and her mom and I we both made it so that Brandy was ever was able to go on tour I mean on on uh the prom with Kobe Bryant by the way if you need evidence that W is a textbook narcissist keep in mind that this man has six kids with his ex-wife Tracy Nash four sons and two daughters and he named all of his sons after him the boys are named W first W second W 3D and W fourth and to no one's surprise according to the latest reports the boys now have a strained relationship with their dad W hasn't posted anything about his sons on social media since 2018 and word on the street is that he pretty much abandoned his kids after he married his second wife Amber Rees in 2019 and welcome to baby with her now going back to W's IG live where he talked about Brandy in true narcissist fashion he went on and on about how he was the one who put Brandy on the map and gave her all these career opportunities when it came time for Brandy to introduce herself to the world I'm the one that actually put her on the boys to Mentor okay so she was with me you know she was my friend and we became intimate as a real in a relationship there's no lie going on here you can ask Brandy she will tell you the same story relax on what you think because I know because I lived it and so did Brandy as time progressed we grew out of each other yes it was a hurtful thing it was a hurtful thing to break up that's what happens you're in a relationship and then you break up she grew out of me and I grew out of her might have grewing out of her a little bit faster but you know it's the relationship you young and you make decisions next thing you know that's what it is Brandy's successful Boys to Men is successful and we're happy you know what I'm saying and then W again brought up bry's Mom Sonia claiming that both she and bry's dad were part of their relationship which in other words means bry's parents knew exactly what was going on and they failed to protect their daughter so whoever is there saying you know all kinds of crazy stuff like they know you know what I mean regardless of anything my age her mother was definitely you know a part of our relation a very her mother and father was a part of our relationship they allowed me to to guide Brandy and to help her through her career they understood that we had grown close and that's what it was you know what I'm saying so understand that that you know for a fact whoever it is on there that life happens that's just what it is is so now you have your answer and you have your understanding if you care to listen you care to believe it I don't care as you can imagine fans were disgusted by W refusing to take any accountability after all these years and they slammed him for once again twisting the truth and gaslighting everyone especially after he already admitted in that Breakfast Club interview that his relationship with Brandy was illegal in some states and let's be real even if it was legal everywhere it doesn't make it any better morally speaking because why is a man in his early 20s even talking to a 15-year-old and trying to be her friend anyway one fan commented on W's video sir she might not have been 15 but she was still a teenager when she was dating you please don't do the semantics thing with the public cause we're no fools you just don't want to be our Kelly and another person wrote w is lying The Boys to Men tour featuring baby face and Brandy began January of 199 5 Brandy was 15 turning 16 at the time of the Boys to Men tour I worked in radio at that time and worked that show in Detroit Brandy was 15 and W was 22 now let's talk about Sonia Norwood's role in all this because fans are saying she should be held responsible too for practically handing her daughter to these grown men just because she was obsessed with turning Brandy into a star in fact Brandy herself hinted in her interview for Oprah's magazine that he Mother wasn't there for her and was focused more on being her manager than her mom I just wanted someone to listen to me Brandy said to see me as a human being it seemed everyone treated me as if I were an item I was too embarrassed to tell my mom about some of the things I was experiencing because of the good girl image that had been created for me I couldn't really express myself to anyone the public thought Brandy would never do this or that but I was doing those things Oprah then asked Oprah what things are you talking about and Brandy responded when I was 15 I fell in love with someone who was 20 when I tried to talk to Mom about it she said you're not in love you don't know what love is but we already heard from W himself that Sonia Norwood was very much involved in W and bry's relationship again Brandy was a young teenager back then so of course she thought she was in love but instead of Sonia protecting her daughter from getting involved with a grown man she dismissed her feelings while at the same time allowing W to get close to Brandy and take advantage of her and get this Sonia actually tried to put the blame on Brandy in that Oprah interview claiming that Brandy just wouldn't listen to her Sonia said but you know what Oprah as a parent you do listen when your child comes to you and cries but when you say what you need to say it's not what the child wants to hear however Brandy then interrupted Sonia saying but you don't listen with your whole body and your whole mind but Sonia again got defensive and said a parent isn't built to listen with her whole body and mind when she's talking about her 15-year-old daughter going out with a 20-year-old man whether she was a celebrity or not I had the same fear all mothers do that my daughter would get caught in a situation where a baby is making a baby Sonia then went on to say that Brandy stood her ground and she stood hers before adding but her father and I allowed her to do things most parents wouldn't allow their children to do because she was a celebrity she got away with murder and I was there for all the pain that came from her being in a relationship with a 20-year-old the things he said and did to her I wanted to kill him but what Sonia didn't mention to Oprah is that she was the one who reached out to W to tell him Brandy was his biggest fan and then Sonia and Wan practically took control over bry's life and that's why even now as a grown woman Brandy is still dealing with depression and self-esteem issues in a recent cover story for people Brandy said I felt like I didn't have the space to grow and to grow up in a safe way I had to deal with so many other opinions about what I should do how I should be and what I should look like and that can get tough when you're trying to find your own voice as for fans they're saying bry's story is a classic case of how Fame hungry parents can totally wreck their kids' lives it's a disturbing pattern we see all too often in Hollywood some parents are so obsessed with chasing Fame and fortune that they practically sell their own children to the industry one fan said her mother and Aliyah's mother are one and the same they both Sat by and did nothing while their daughters were taken advantage of by older men Aaliyah's mother literally gave her to you know who and I believe he paid her as well and another person wrote w made it seem like he Wasing her and he claims that they waited to be intimate when she was of age and she was not that much of age and her mother Sonia was was the main reason for the mess she was behind the whole fake marriage situation that's why Brandy and Sonia always had a rocky mother anddaughter relationship Sonia was more focused on being a stage mom than a mother but what's your take on bry's struggles and her relationship with W do you think Sonia Norwood really sold her daughter for Fame and Fortune leave your thoughts in the comments and stick around for this next video