Joseline had placed a restraining order against her and she supposedly violated it. I can do whatever I want when I drink and still get up and handle my business."īut what chafes her the most is how Joseline got her arrested after Tommie allegedly made violent threats toward her, something she vehemently denied. "I think an alcoholic is someone who depends on alcohol to function," she said. She has gotten into a few fights with other women on the show. I was wrong for stealing."Ī big focal point on "Love and Hip Hop" has been Lee's drinking, which exacerbates her volatile temper. Tommie is both upfront and defensive about her checkered past, which was revealed on the show. She didn't graduate high school, had to get a GED. She and her siblings spent time in and out of shelters. She said she was known as "Tomboy Tash" as a kid and that eventually became Tommie.īut her life got significantly worse as a teen when her family moved to Atlanta. Life was better when she grew up in New Jersey where she had a backyard and played in a cemetery across the street. Her mom never held a job, was always a hustler and that's where Lee learned her own bad habits. Tommie (real name: Atasha Jefferson) admits she is no saint but said she grew up under rough circumstances. I don't want to see her hurt."īottom line: "It's ratings for them. It's a natural mechanism to be defensive of your parents as well as their children. I don't want my mom to go through what I'm going through. She did hate seeing the disputes between her mom Samantha and her get played up so much on the show because she truly does loves her. "I love being able to show my life and getting paid for me being me." The downside is the mirror image of the upside: "Everyone knows your business. Tommie said she enjoys the fame and exposure from the television show. (She joined existing cast members Joseline Hernandez, Karlie Redd, Mimi Faust, Tammy Rivera, Rasheeda Frost and Stevie J with top billing.) You'd think this would have been the end for Tommie as well on the show, but the producers liked her and rewarded her a coveted spot in the main credits, replacing K. She joined the cast in a recurring role in 2016 as the girlfriend of Scrapp De Leon but he was sent to prison last year for marijuana trafficking. (Her absence from the Jamaica trip airing now has to do with her not having a passport, she said, not because she was fired, as some gossip sites noted.) "I used to barely have enough money to pay the bills," Tommie said.
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