FanMAIL: Gina Prince-Bythewood Responds

Remember that joke I made about the classy director Gina Prince-Bythewood arriving at the LA premiere of her movie “The Secret Life of Bees” with young actor Tristan Wilds on her arm? Well Gina didn’t like it. Apparently the joke went over her head.

Gina responded by calling me names. Can you believe it?

Of course I knew she didn’t attend the premiere with Tristan. Everyone knows the popular director is married with children. Like most of you, I loved Gina’s movies. Oh well, she just lost a fan.

Here’s what she wrote:

Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 13:04
From: Gi24fps@aol.com
To: sandra@sandrarose.com
Subject: gina prince-bythewood

some idiots with a computer have no shame. i did arrive on the arm of an attractive black man, and that would be my husband. And then i took photos with all my cast. i guess i must be dating dakota, too. get your shit straight.

gina

http://www.stylishmoms.net Nina

Too Funny!
MzTee

Sandra — why are you surprised Gina responded this way? Regardless if you were joking or not, you insinuated with the post that she was stepping out on her husband. Why do you think she would find that funny. Maybe you can chalk this up to being British and that type of dry wit/humor British are noted for because nothing was funny about the post at all.
The Divine Ms. K

Umm, it didn’t have a very joking tone to me, Sandra. No wonder she sent you that e-mail. LOL

She’ll just have to live and hope she makes it without you as a fan.
Amulet

Sandra,
I just think anyone could have looked at the little guy and knew that wasn’t her date. Duh! I thought it was funny, but sometimes people just don’t get a little joke. I hate she got gangsta on you, instead of saying, “Girl, you stupid, that was my cast member.” Sandra you are definitely somebody if you got them cursing at you though, lol. Be my PR. lol
ATLBTCH

LOL Sandra for posting that woman’s email address… you should have blocked it out.
She has a beautiful family
PAGESINADIARY

damn that bish cant take a joke?
sharnell

Okay, so call me clueless! But when I say the photo I thought the joke was calling her a cougar. She looked the same age as the guy. Opps my bad. I need to watch TV more.
PAGESINADIARY

i would have posted the email address too since the bish wanna email somebody with some bullshyt!!
iyonah

wow this goes to show that celebs and such do read blogs and feel some type of way about what’s said …

we still LUB you Sandra w/ your anit Bey Z Obama put the Black men on blast by calling them DL all the time SELF!
iscream

I didn’t know she was married. I never even heard of her nor do I want to see that movie. Maybe when it comes on cable.

I don’t think her email was wrong. I like that she stepped up and responded. More celeb’s need to start speaking out… & going straight to the source. You should respect the fact that she didn’t go to another site and bash you. She told you upfront so it didn’t stick out in the back.
kwallace577

ohhhh….. and if you click on the highlighted “that joke” auntie went back and changed the caption on the original picture!!!! LOL

you a crafty somebody aincha auntie???

i’m sure gina is not the first person sandra have pissed the hail off… and for MY OWN reading pleasure i can just HOPE she ain’t the last. LMAO.

i’m DEAD she told sandra to….wait for it….getcho shyt skrait. LMAO.

gina needs a hobby.
LADYTEA

Sandra, Sandra, Sandra… you should have known one day that assuming things, that are not facts would catch up to you one day.
miamore73

I don’t think marriage and cheating on your spouse is a joke. Evidently netiher does she. GOOD FOR HER!!
babyjam824

I could understand why she would be livid. If you didnt know that was her co-star and anything about her, one might assume it was true. I read it and knew it was wrong. Maybe if she was well known like the stars in the movie, it could be seen as a joke. but people dont know her. she spoke her mind, but i dont think posting her email was a good move. but hey it’s your blog
ladycali

That lady knew Sandra was joking. But since she’s a nobody she feels as though she needed to comment to make this bigger than what it was. It was a JOKE… Laugh & move on!!
avidreader

I didn’t know who she was until your post! What other movies did she do?
babyjam824

P.S. I am assuming that’s her email address, and you probably added a letter/number now that i see it. so i acknowledge you might have edited before posting. sorry in advance
babyjam824

avidreader Says:

I didn’t know who she was until your post! What other movies did she do?

___________________________________________________________

Love & Basketball.

Her and her husband used to work on a Different World and i remember the husband worked on NY Undercover.
candi21

Dayum Sandra your site is popular huh?! Even directors visit?!! She was heated, tone down b4 you get hit with a C&D order. LOL!!
http://myspace.com/diva_mama2 DivaMama

I just clicked on the “that joke” link too and saw that Sandrar changed it! Good looks kwallace! That is too funny!

I would be mad too, but at the same time, I understand the humor. Oh well. You have to admit, though, with all the scandal and cesspool activity in Holly-Weird, you have to straighten out your image before someone talks about you and someone else falsely.
Anna

They say you have to have thick skin to be in that line of work. What about a sense of humor. I did not read any comments on that post that had anything bad to say. Usually Sandra posts something and we are the ones who run with it. She should have read our comments.
kwallace577

yes @divamama i had forgotten WHAT gina was so pissed about so i clicked it. then i was like…that is NOT what it originally said! LOL LOL.

as a married folk my ownself i can see why gina is mad.

and now that i know folks read this or word gets out about what is up here i feel bad about all the tiny jokes i ever typed.

not real bad. just a little.
CaramelDrop

Auntie,

I HAVE SOME INDUSTRIAL STREGNTH ALCHOL IF YOU WANT TO WIPE THAT CHECK MARK OFF YOUR FORHEAD

RTFLMBAO
SlimA

Gina gone get in that @$$ Sandra.
prynsexxx

Sandra you knew you weren’t joking, but then again, LIFE is TOO DAMN SHORT to sweat the small stuff. And that my dear was SMALL stuff. But you know blk women don’t play when it comes to their men and relationships. Take Tiny and the myspace jumpoff drama.

But then again, THIS is:

“Sandra Rose dot com, where ppl come to play and pass the day away” LOL
Lala11_7

Regarding Gina’s response, I would have to quote Shakespere….

“Me think thou doth protest too much”….
KaraZ

Ok Gina has gained a fan. She had every right to get in yoazz, in this circumstance.
brenden

Well she lost 1 and gained another. I’ve seen love and basketball but was not familiar with her. She seems like everyday people. As an every day person myself I’ve cursed out many.lol. I read on another blog where the blogger was upset with nelly and ashanti for not acknowledging their love. Then the blogger went into an in depth opinion of how Black love in Hollywood is almost taboo…The blogger used bey and jay as an example amongst others. I understood what the blogger was saying, and now start to question why couples in Hollywood like to play coy when it comes to their relationships. Folks are going to be in your business (relationship) whether you acknowledge it or not, so why not just admit it? Well here we have a woman who is proud of, and doesn’t appreciate any speculation otherwise that she is indeed in a happy committed Black relationship. Good for her. The secret lives of bees doesn’t really look like my cup of tea, but being a new fan I’ll go check it out this weekend…
teecee

i didnt think it was a joke, you called her a cougar because a married grown woman came to a party with a a 19 yr old boy. well in hollywood where people start rumors that end your career, i think saying that she came with another man would have made me mad too if i was her husband or that her kids got wind of this and thinking they are breaking up.. what you think ,might be a joke other take serious.
estyle4039

Sandra says:

Gina responded by calling me names and such. Can you believe it? . . .Oh well, she just lost a fan.

****
LMAO . . .you can dish it out but can’t take it huh? Shame on you, Missy!
ELove

I’m sorry but Ms Gina HAS ISSUES that SHE needs to get resolved… And FAST!!!

If a blog item can Threaten-or-Break up YOUR marriage then guess what… YOU never had a Marriage Worth-a-DAMN to begin with (Real Talk)
Anna

I have a pet peeve about emails being sent as though you have been in an IM with someone you have known for years.

She did not capitalize names or the beginning of a sentence. (Rosie O’Donnel does the same thing on her blog.)
I realize she is a director and not a writer. She has a great job title that when sending an email should show her intelligence, even if cussing out the sendee.
Amulet

She just wanted to be on SandraRose twice. I agree with ELove and ladycali, it was a joke on a blog.

Not only that, people there saw her with her husband, what does she have to prove?
kwallace577

i cosign with elove and ladycali too. like i said gina need a hobby other than reading her own press.

sandra already got a hobby.

this is it.
Charles

Let me right this ho back and i will set her straigh this bitch would straight up get her wig snatched up by me if she ever ever dared to write me a message, you already seen how i shut down HUNE and her click, watch me……….
Amulet

Gina Princes says…i did arrive on the arm of an attractive black man.

I wouldn’t brag about him. LOL LOL LOL

OK I’m joking.
Yanaja

I respect the fact that she kept it straight to the point. She didn’t go on and on in a huge nonsensical rant. Go GINA.

Her sons are cutie pies…
pinkscorpion

Totally dead @ her last sentence. Sandra you are a mess! You put folks on full blast (Email addy) I’m also assuming it’s been edited though. LOL Go girl. You are worldwide! Can you be my PR?
Amulet

The “get your shit straight” was too much though. Neither one of them know each other to coming hard like that.

I mean after the 2nd strike, that would have been cool. But not like that.
breonboyd

well three snaps in a z formation then!!!!
Amulet

Sandra, I asked you first.
BayArea

kwallace577 Says:

i’m sure gina is not the first person sandra have pissed the hail off… and for MY OWN reading pleasure i can just HOPE she ain’t the last. LMAO.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Your not the only one! I’m waiting with my bag of microwave popcorn handy
BayArea

I mean you’re
kwallace577

omg. i never really believed it. all of the talk of charles and sandra being the same person.

but chandra just said the exact words of auntie….

“hunE and her click”

for the last TIME hunE ain’t got no click. she rolls alone.
Amulet

You guys are hilarious!
http://www.myspace.com/kymystrys Kymystry

Wow …. someone was NOT happy .. I thought in Holly-Weird .. All Press is Good Press …
Amulet

Aparently not Bythewood.
terika83

Lol Sandra you think you’re slick putting her email address on blast. lol.
ELove

Just Personal perception-n-experience coming here…
But when SOMEONE feels the Need OR is COMPELLED to address Erroneous & Unfounded rumors THEN that SOMEONE’s response is a Ringing-Endorsement of Some Validity-of-Some KIND regarding the topic-of-discussion

NOW there are always exceptions to the rule BUT More Often-than-Not there’s usually Fire when you smell Smoke
terika83

I read it and knew it was sarcasm/an assumption/whatever you may call it…but unfortunately everyone may not take it that way. I personally have never heard of her either and don’t know her age. I could tell she was older but I had common sense to know she wasn’t his “date” in that type of way. I’m not suprised she wanted to set the record straight for people who don’t know of her.
bobblekins

Ha! Gina made a fan of me too. I love it when people stand up for themselves. I will be watching her!
Amulet

I’m already a fan of hers, but I didn’t like her being so defensive over something so small. That’s classless and egregious.

She could swaggered it up a bit with more humor, now that’s personality.
~Kissan~

She didn’t think it was funny and I don’t blame her, that’s how rumors get started. It may not be a big deal to some but it is to her and maybe even her husband, that’s what matters.
MistaO

Sandra – Hey I like your site and visit often, but real talk, she kinda has a point. You know today, folks such as yourself should take every opportunity to uplift Black married unions!

All jokes and “well this is an entertainment site” comments aside, our community is in a woefully desperate state and most of the issues are born right out of the lack of INTACT Black families. So it’s very important for us educated and read Black people to respect and protect unions amongst other Black people and not attempt to poison them on any level, even in a joking fashion…

Well that being said, I bet you’re single? Right? Well if so, that would explain some of it. Hang in there, there is a man out there…
aprilshowers

…THAT’S COLD SHE POSTED HER EMAIL ADDRESS. WOW.
Mississippi16

I like how she handles herself. She didn’t make this a PR event – You did Sandra.

I’m sure after she cussed you out, she went on about her day, promoting her new movie, and enjoying her family – like a real sista will.

She is hollywood, she could have easily issued public statements through “her people” regarding internet blogs but she didn’t.
~Kissan~

@MistaO,
I agree.
Mississippi16

Sandra can be hard as nails on people. That’s what make us tune in ALL day Errday.

But if she can be so quick to call people out as whores, low self esteem, self hating, broke, and cheating… why is she and we (as her readers) so sensitive when it comes back around?
http://myspace.com/thegameoncw Bird

There is no way to prove that email came from her. That looks like a made up email address. Why would she care about a truly silly blog entry? I don’t know who she is nor am I aware of her work. What did you say her role on this movie was? Anyway, like I said, who knows where that email came from. Tristan is still fine.
Anna

MistaO Says:

Sandra – Hey I like your site and visit often, but real
All jokes and “well this is an entertainment site” comments aside, our community is in a woefully desperate state and
Well that being said, I bet you’re single? Right? Well if so, that would explain some of it. Hang in there, there is a man out there.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I think Sandra is gay. Either she has or is looking for a woman.
kwallace577

i don’t think we are taking up for sandra. but this is her site that we choose to participate in. keyword= choose.

sandra has never corrected us when we say it (that i know of). and she has dropped hints. so i think it is safe to say yes she is lesbian. which is good for her. so her family is not going to look like what we may think is the definition of a black family. which is okay too. add in the fact she is english and she is all the things that makes us diverse up here. remember diversity? it means accepting and processing the fact that we are different but all of the SAME RACE.

which is the human race. even charles and sweetface…..

auntie is wrong sometimes…but she is also right some too. when she is right i try to tell her. and when she is wrong (politics) i try to tell her that too. the good with the bad.

okay i am stepping off my soapbox now. good night. going to do my homework….
kwallace577

now that i go back and read my last post auntie just ain’t wrong about politics. she is wrong about alot of stuff. like calling omar epps wife keisha a girlfriend and teeny ti’s wife. when they were all in the same picture. remember that? but yeah i correct her on that stuff too….
pointhimout

wow. i didn’t comment yesterday cuz i knew it wasn’t true. tristan, if youve seen the ads, can be clearly seen in a couple scenes in the trailer, so i wasn’t buying it.

gina and reggie both have been in the game for a minute. I remember reggie rock from his writing on A different world; I think he went on and did some stuff for NY Undercover too; also did ‘dancing in September,’ starring Nicole Ari. Gina’s been around also, part of the 4some that ‘girlfriends’ was created around (mara brock akil)….

I can understand her being offended by it. I actually didn’t even go back to read any comments from the post…guess cuz I knew the s h y t wasn’t true.

Suck it up Sandra. If you’re a fan of quality work, you’ll continue being a fan of hers. Sometimes, we all have to be checked on our bs. This was one of those times for you.

You can block out her email too, Sandra.
ReadTheBlog

As if…Ain’t nobody even heard of her monkey ass! Sandra, I got your back on this one.
Amulet

PETTY is the best way to describe this.

Ridiculous if this silliness has gone that far.
We all know that Sandra was just joking. If these people are part of Bythewood’s camp then this is not good character representation of her.

Bythewood tell your crew to chill out. Their being ignorant.
flewis

WOW I’M SHOCKED!
candycane

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
I like that. Say it lady (snapping my fingers)

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