"BRAXTON: You know, I kind of stumbled. I've always loved TV. I love movies and watching them and everything about it. As a kid, you know, we were very religious, but we could watch TV and watch movies. We couldn't go to the movies, but we could watch it at home. So I - of course, I fell in love with him. Me and my family - we would watch movies all the time."
"MARTIN: I didn't watch it with my husband. I was going to say, is this one of these that - I think I would watch with my friends, OK? BRAXTON: This is not a husband one. MARTIN: No. BRAXTON: It's a real girls' girls movie. This is an estrogen movie. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "HE WASN'T MAN ENOUGH") BRAXTON: (As Mel) I don't believe that you would hide the fact that you're dating my ex. ESSENCE ATKINS: (As Monica) Wait. What? BRAXTON: (As Mel) Your new fiance? The man I spent the last 2 1/2 years with, who was leeching off of me. Now he's doing the exact same thing to you."
Toni Braxton became a major musical hitmaker in the 1990s and 2000s and later forged a producing and acting partnership with Lifetime. She produces and stars in films, some of which are adapted from her songs, including a movie inspired by her 2000 hit "He Wasn't Man Enough." The film is framed as a female-focused, "girls' girls" or "estrogen" movie intended for group viewing. A clip shows Braxton's character confronting an ex who is now involved with a friend's fiancé. Braxton describes stumbling into television and film and recalls a childhood of watching movies at home with family.
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