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James Brown's wife talks of his troubles, and hers
She comments on booking mug, ice storm and claims she was married to someone else
The Associated Press
Published on: 04/06/04
James Brown's wife says she loves her husband and wants to stay with him even though she has been asked to leave the singer's current Australian tour.
Tomi Rae Brown said she was asked to leave because of claims
she was still married to another man when she wed the Godfather of Soul, who has a pending criminal domestic violence charge against him after he and his wife got into a fight at the couple's Beech Isla
nd,
S.C., home.
Tomi Rae Brown said she's coming back to the United States to sign papers proving her previo
us marriage was dissolved.
"That was an illegal marriage that lasted for three days and was annulled," she told The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle from Australia on Monday. "It was done under the pretense of a man trying to stay in the country, which I didn't know. It was never consummated."
She said reports that the January fight stemmed from her previous marriage were wrong.
Even as the police arrived, she said she was focused on her husband's plight, and the booking photograph of the normally stylish Brown could've been avoided.
"I tried to give the police a comb for him," she said. "I asked them to let me put hi
m in some clean clothes. I asked them not to take the Godfather out looking like that."
She said the couple had been through a tough weekend without electricity following an ice sto
rm t
hat
left thousa
nds across South Carolina without power.
"We had gone for three days with no power and no heat and we were freezing to death," she said. "Mr. Brown woke up that mor
ning disheveled and I wanted to leave. I wasn't allowed to. That's when I made the 911 call, that's when the chair was raised over my head and that's when the police came."
She said she's not sure what will happen next and hopes the couple can start over.
"I was told not to talk to the press by my attorneys, but I'm tired of hiding," she said. "I don't want to go blow a bomb on my husband and I don't want to put my husband down. I love my husband and I believe he deserves every honor he gets."
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/0404/06jamesbrown.html
James Brown's wife talks of his troubles, and hers
She comments on booking mug, ice storm and claims she was married to someone else
The Associated Press
Published on: 04/06/04
James Brown's wife says she loves her husband and wants to stay with him even though she has been asked to leave the singer's current Australian tour.
Tomi Rae Brown said she was asked to leave because of claims
she was still married to another man when she wed the Godfather of Soul, who has a pending criminal domestic violence charge against him after he and his wife got into a fight at the couple's Beech Isla
nd,
S.C., home.
Tomi Rae Brown said she's coming back to the United States to sign papers proving her previo
us marriage was dissolved.
"That was an illegal marriage that lasted for three days and was annulled," she told The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle from Australia on Monday. "It was done under the pretense of a man trying to stay in the country, which I didn't know. It was never consummated."
She said reports that the January fight stemmed from her previous marriage were wrong.
Even as the police arrived, she said she was focused on her husband's plight, and the booking photograph of the normally stylish Brown could've been avoided.
"I tried to give the police a comb for him," she said. "I asked them to let me put hi
m in some clean clothes. I asked them not to take the Godfather out looking like that."
She said the couple had been through a tough weekend without electricity following an ice sto
rm t
hat
left thousa
nds across South Carolina without power.
"We had gone for three days with no power and no heat and we were freezing to death," she said. "Mr. Brown woke up that mor
ning disheveled and I wanted to leave. I wasn't allowed to. That's when I made the 911 call, that's when the chair was raised over my head and that's when the police came."
She said she's not sure what will happen next and hopes the couple can start over.
"I was told not to talk to the press by my attorneys, but I'm tired of hiding," she said. "I don't want to go blow a bomb on my husband and I don't want to put my husband down. I love my husband and I believe he deserves every honor he gets."
