“Harlem Heights” chronicles the attempts of a group of young black professionals to make it big in New York City. Among the cast is Brooke Crittendon (she’s second from the left in that photo), who works at MTV and explained part of the reason she appeared on the show is her ex.
“I was involved with a very famous rapper for a number of years,” she said. “And I worked in the news and documentary department (at MTV). So a lot of our pop news
involved myself. But because I sort of played the background to the person that I was dating, I had to go through people saying things about me or just sort of assuming who I was… I just was like, “I just want to let people know what I really am and what I really do. I’m not just this person’s girlfriend.”
A reporter (who doesn’t watch much MTV, apparently) asked the natural follow-up: who’s the famous rapper?
“Part of my personal journey beyond actually wrapping the show is to not mention that person,” she replied, “because if I’m trying to get from under the shadow of being that person’s girlfriend, I feel like to constantly drop their name and that association is sort of saying, “Hey, I don’t want you to think I’m just that, but I did used to date this really cool person.” You know what I mean?”
Check out the trailer below:
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