Kelly Price Says Producers Encouraged Her To Ambush Chante Moore With Kenny Lattimore

The season is officially over, but the drama isn’t. There seems to be more drama with TV One’s R&B Divas LA. Who this time? Soulful singer Kelly Price is now speaking out and the diva has some not so nice things to say about what goes on BEHIND the scenes of the show. In an interview with CNikki.com, the 40-year-old New Yorker speaks candidly about the show’s producers and it’s pretty surprising. The new reality star says producers were trying to create scenarios that would create more drama then necessary. How so? She specifically says that producers wanted her to surprise Chante Moore, by inviting her to a meeting with her ex-husband, Kenny Lattimore. [Backstory: Chante and Kenny are no longer married and are going through an ugly child custody case in court.] Kelly explains:

I refused when multiple times I was asked to arrange a surprise meeting between Chante Moore and her ex husband, Kenny Lattimore. Kenny is my friend. Chante is my cast mate. Where we’re working together; we’ve known each other for a very long time and we have a friendly relationship. and i know because of my relationship with him and my private conversations with Chante that that’s not something that she’s ready to have happen. they were not in that place or in that space to be in the same place with each other and it be like that. So I wasn’t about to be in the middle of it. I was asked not once but more than times then I can count. There are people not very pleased with me because there was a lot I did say no to.

She also explains that while her frustration with Fred (‘memba he was the director that Chante and Lil Mo were working with for the monologues?) was real, producers asked her to create conflict with him:

In the instance of Fred, I did say yes to giving him a problem on camera. but i still own what I did. Nobody forced me to do it, they did ask. I said yes. My thing was I didn’t want to fight with the ladies. But if you need some conflict, you need some drama I can have some drama with somebody that’s not gonna be here…Some of my frustration was real. When you see me scream ‘I’m too great for this…’ I’m not talking to any of the ladies. I’m in it with production…you’re treating me like garbage. And i don’t need to come here, to be treated like garbage.

Executive Producer Paul Coy Allen & Chante Moore

Recently, we chatted with one of the show’s producers, Paul Coy Allen, who paints a different picture.

There are natural dramas within every person’s everyday life, and with  “R&B Divas” that’s what our audience connects to the most…REAL natural situations & people they can relate to. Once again we tell our cast to be as open possible, and as Producers of the series we seek out resolutions, and positivity at all stops. No one has ever told a cast member to fight. As mentioned to each of the Divas when we first sit down with them, we are not sought out to create train wreck television, and that’s definitely not the type of programming I personally would want my name on.

Whose versions of events do you believe–Kelly Price or one of the show’s producer’s?