Iyanla: Fix My Celebrity Parenting Nightmare

Iyanla: Fix My Life

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Iyanla travels to Nanuet, New York, to help rapper, actor and reality TV star Saigon and his on-again, off-again lover and mother to his son, Erica Jean. Many know the couple for their tumultuous relationship, displayed on the reality series "Love & Hip Hop: New York." Anger, fighting, resentment and a failure to communicate is threatening their ability to effectively co-parent their young child, Steven. In an emotionally charged episode and a series of heart-to-heart, individual and joint sessions with Saigon and Erica, Iyanla attempts to get to the root of their dysfunction and bring these two parents together for their son's sake, before it is too late.

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0:00.0	Let me tell you who I am.
0:02.0	I am a survivor, a teenage mother, a welfare recipient, and a woman.
0:08.0	I am a teacher, life coach, minister, lawyer, and author.
0:13.0	I've had my share of breakups, breakdowns, and breakthroughs.
0:18.0	I did my work and put my life back together piece by piece. I am I on the Van Zand,
0:24.4	and I am here to help you do your work. Today, I'm in Nanuette, New York, to meet two people
0:33.3	who have exposed their very private problems in a very public way.
0:39.9	Millions tuned in as Brian, also known as hip-hop star Saigon,
0:44.6	and his on-again-off-again lover, Erica,
0:47.5	showed violent and disrespectful behavior on the VH-1 hit show, Love and Hip-Hop, New York. In 2003, Brian hit it big in the music world,
0:58.3	using his trouble pass behind bars to fuel his passion. Brian's popularity even landed him a recurring
1:05.6	role on the hit HBO show, Entourage. At a high point in his career, Brian says he met Erica at a party, where she made quite an
1:15.9	impression.
1:17.5	So here comes this beautiful girl walking, coming in a party strutting.
1:21.6	I'm like, how you doing, miss?
1:24.2	She looked at me.
1:26.1	She just turned her head and kept walking. Try another approach.
1:29.3	I woke up behind her.
1:30.3	Excuse me, miss.
1:31.3	I said, why are you trying to act cute?
1:33.3	You fake boo.
1:34.3	Your shit probably fake anywhere, you fake booty.
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