Chris Brown is suing the producers behind Investigation Discovery's "Chris Brown: A History of Violence" docuseries … alleging the project was full of straight up lies.
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00:00Chris Brown acknowledges. He does have a history of violence. He has been very forthcoming about it
00:05Well, we've seen it and we've all seen it
00:08but he says the history of violence in relation to him that was put forward in a
00:13Documentary the title was Chris Brown a history of violence
00:16That came out last fall. He says that one is filled with a really ugly lie one. That is so ugly
00:23He decided he needed to file a massive lawsuit against the producers
00:29it's produced by Warner Brothers and
00:31Investigation Discovery and he has filed a five hundred million dollar lawsuit
00:36against them
00:38specifically because there is an accuser in that documentary who calls Chris a serial rapist and he says
00:45before they
00:47Put out this documentary
00:48he was his team was made aware that they were gonna have this person on the documentary saying this and
00:55He says that we provided them plenty of evidence that that was an outright lie and they still went ahead and did it so now
01:02He is taking this to court. Yeah, and he's suing for five hundred million dollars, which sounds like an exorbitant amount
01:08But he's very successful artist and this would obviously impair his reputation in a very serious way
01:14But these allegations were brought by a Jane Doe initially in a lawsuit
01:17The lawsuit was subsequently withdrawn, but it's out there in in a public record now
01:22I guess the producers would have you know, not be able to overlook contrary evidence
01:27They should have folded it into the documentary, but he's really opening the door to just examining his entire life by suing for defamation
01:33That's what he's done. I was in the documentary that is it her that her lawsuit was withdrawn
01:39Yes
01:39They say that this was initially a Jane Doe lawsuit
01:42that was the basis of these allegations that were mentioned in the documentary that was subsequently withdrawn and they say it was withdrawn because
01:48They said these were false allegations and and threatened to sort of fight back vociferously so they were withdrawn
01:54So I have a couple questions number one
01:56Is she the person that provided the information that Chris Brown said was BS? That is the implication?
02:03Yes, and the
02:05Allegation he's making in his lawsuit is not just that the documentary called him a rapist
02:12But a serial rapist. So how did they get the serial part in there?
02:16I haven't seen the documentary. I assume that they have leveled up lots of allegations
02:21They're really focusing in on this one particular set of allegations in this lawsuit
02:25But I would imagine if you watch a documentary
02:28The serial part is laid out and the violent tendencies over time by just other stories about him
02:34so the standard for a defamation lawsuit for somebody like Chris Brown since he's a celebrity is
02:39Either proving that they knew it was false or they engaged in a reckless disregard of the truth
02:45So the issue is going to be did they have enough information
02:50To at least that where a reasonable person would know
02:55Or even a person with a modicum of judgment would know that
03:00This is unproven
03:02Unsubstantiated and maybe untrue, right? I think that's exactly right
03:05Did they recklessly disregard meaning did they turn a blind eye to did they stick their head in the sand with contrary information?
03:11But as you said, he's a public figure
03:12So that's a very high standard and he has now put the issue of defamation on the table
03:17He's going to have to prove that these were defamatory statements, which does open the door to examining his life
03:22well, does he have to prove it or did they have to show what they used to
03:27Establish the allegation. He has said they're lying, right?
03:31So they are going to assert that we are not lying. Well, right, but if he says you're lying, it's not true
03:37The burden is kind of on them at that point to show well, I mean he does have no no
03:42The burden is on him to show that he was defamed. Absolutely. Well, not a cause of action
03:47but at a point
03:48They're gonna have to ante up why they believed it was true if he presents evidence that it may not be true
03:54That's correct. And that's when the burden would maybe shift
03:57That's what they're gonna put their whole plate of evidence of why they went forward with this documentary
04:01He will have to refute that and then you're gonna have to balance whether they disregarded the truth
04:06And again not having seen the full documentary. I just know in the lawsuit
04:10Chris has included
04:12documentation of that about why this woman was lying in his eyes and
04:18he says that that was proven and that's why she withdrew the the lawsuit in the first place, so
04:24It seems to me like he is putting the burden on Warner Brothers and investigation seems that way to me, too
04:30Hi, my name is Angie Monroe and I am from the UK
04:34I do believe Chris Brown is guilty as he has a history of
04:40Accusations, I believe women should be accounted for and heard no means no
04:47Yeah, except in this case. She withdrew it. So that never got right
04:52So it wasn't like it was proven in court
04:55I mean she withdrew the made an allegation in a lawsuit and then we do that also so we will see
05:01You