Farrah Franklin. After her departure, she attempted to launch a solo career. She has also found success as an actor. Though she has hit the occasional rough patch, by , she was healthy and happy with her life. Michelle Williams. Though technically not an original member, it would be a mistake not to note her accomplishments since the group retired.
Accusations of management showing favoritism amongst group members and mishandling of finances are what was alleged to have caused the split. Years later, Roberson and Luckett reemerged and attained success in their own individual careers. We became the best of friends and went to high school together. I was like her low-key bodyguard. Nobody knows that though. I was her protector. Roberson met Beyonce about two years earlier when they both auditioned to be in a girl group.
She released her third studio album, Back 2 Life, in There is so much freedom in that. The year was Humankind survived the Millennium bug, The Sims began its decades-long reign over the computer game world, and Michelle Williams and Farrah Franklin made their public debut as official members of Destiny's Child in the "Say My Name" music video.
Williams was also struggling with depression. One might assume that someone who joined an astronomically famous music group that was only getting more popular by the second would feel like they were on top of the world, but depression doesn't work that way.
In an episode of CBS' The Talk via ET , the "The Greatest" singer revealed that she has grappled with depression since she was a teenager, but "didn't know what to call it" until she was in her thirties. She ultimately told Mathew Knowles, but she claimed he brushed it off, saying, "You all just signed a multi-millionaire dollar deal, you're about to go on tour, what have you got to be depressed about? I think he wanted me to be grateful, which I was, but I was still sad," she said.
Nonetheless, Williams stayed with Destiny's Child until they went on hiatus in Michelle Williams' post-Destiny's Child career has been major. As a solo artist, she has recorded four studio albums that charted on the Billboard 's Heart to Yours, 's Do You Know, 's Unexpected, and 's Journey to Freedom.
According to Fuse , Williams' album even led to the No. As Essence noted , was a bittersweet year for the star: She got engaged to pastor Chad Johnson, the couple landed their own reality series , and she scored a leading role on Broadway's Once on This Island.
That July, she shared on Instagram that she "proudly" entered treatment. A few months later, as Essence wrote, "she announced that her engagement to Johnson was off, and a week later she was forced to quit the Broadway play per doctor's orders.
Farrah Franklin's time with Destiny's Child burned bright and fast. Franklin and Williams appeared in the music videos for "Jumpin', Jumpin'" and "Say My Name," but their vocals did not. Sadly, it seems like Franklin's stint with the group, which lasted all of six months, didn't end on a positive note. She said she quit because she had problems with their management team, a. Mathew Knowles. According to Franklin, he was "coming down on her" because she got the flu and had to be hospitalized.
In an interview with People Magazine , Roberson said that she never left the group, only finding out she was fired after watching the "Say My Name" video and realizing she had been cut from it. She likened that time as going through a nasty divorce, when you're no longer able to hang out with your friends.
She has repeatedly said that her issue with Destiny's Child was with its management and never with the women themselves who made up the group. She admitted that she had a difficult time dealing with the aftermath of Destiny's Child.
In her words to Billboard , she "took the wrong direction but [she] learned. In , Roberson released her memoir I am LaTavia and shot a docuseries to go along with the book.
In it, she talked frankly about her life and experience with the group. Despite the bad breakup with Destiny's Child, however, Roberson said she remains a fan of her childhood friends' music.
Roberson has also bounced back commercially.
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