(EDITOR’S NOTE: LisaRaye McCoy was First Lady of the Turks and Caicos Islands when she was married to that British colony’s then Premier Michael Misick from 2006 – 2008. This article was published on May 14, 2020, in MadameNoire, owned by One Digital, one of the largest black digital content providers in the U.S.)
ATLANTA — LisaRaye is defending herself after people took her comments about helping to improve Turks and Caicos as the star saying she is the reason the island is successful and well known.
Earlier this month, a clip from her “Cocktails With Queens” segment on Claudia Jordan’s Fox Soul show Out Loud was released where, at one point, LisaRaye said she “turned their island around” after marrying former Prime Minister Michael Misick. Claudia joked that she “upgraded the island,” to which LisaRaye said, “damn right! Say it for the b—hes in the back!”
But the star wasn’t necessarily joking.
“I did more for that island than I did for my own country and my own business, my own self,” she said.
When speaking on her marriage, she stated that early on, because Michael came into their union with so much, including money and power as prime minister, she felt like her value would come in bringing Hollywood to the Turks and Caicos.
“I became the poster child for Turks and Caicos because Turks and Caicos was a jewel of an island, an elite island, that no one knew about until I said, hey, here we are over here! An hour away from the Bahamas! An hour and a half out of Miami! We’re right next to Haiti! It’s beautiful! The sun and the sand and the water, come see what I found over here! I did that and I started businesses over there. I started opportunity over there and I did nothing for here.”
Soon after that clip was released, though, those who are from Turks and Caicos started to lash out at the Player’s Club actress over her statements. See the full article in MadameNoire at https://madamenoire.com/1164814/lisaraye-turks-caicos/?fbclid=IwAR3VTZqGq4IIg2LXRg7W3x8nr61SRGbCI0J8ngq8YD7BbCGBX_mjd0wuIZM
Here is a link to a vide of LisaRaye’s interview with MadamNoire: https://youtu.be/SkFjJ6nRYMU
