Plenty of speculation exists about alleged acrimony between the original Destiny’s Child line-up and the replacements that became household names, but LeToya Luckett says that is definitely not the case.
“People create their own stories in their head a lot of time when they know no parties involved on a personal level,” she told S2Smagazine.
Luckett and LaTavia Roberson left Destiny’s Child when the group’s manager, Beyoncé’s father Matthew Knowles, refused to allow them to appoint their own separate management.
LeToya recalls the first time she met Michelle Williams, who, along with Farrah Franklin, replaced her and LaTavia prior to the group shooting the video for ‘Say My Name’, even though the track featured Luckett and Roberson’s voices. She said since their first meeting at a Dallas fundraiser, Michelle has been a ‘blessing’ and a ‘sweet person’.
“I was sitting with my friends at the time and she said, ‘I’ve been watching you from afar and you inspire me, and you don’t even know it. I’m so, so proud of you.’ It was mind-blowing!”
LeToya and her Destiny’s Child alumni are no strangers to gossip and rumours, but she takes it all in stride, knowing that she still has strong relationships with many of the former group members.
“People are so messy sometimes, and they try to create mess around a situation they know absolutely nothing about,” she said. “We love each other. We support each other and we genuinely mean it.”
An owner of an upmarket boutique in her hometown of Houston, Texas, Luckett has carved out a singing, acting and modelling career since leaving the group and has just begun hosting a magazine show in cable TV in the US.
