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When actor and singer Brandy Norwood was 16 years old, she was the star of the prime-time sitcom \u201cMoesha,\u201d a coming-of-age series in which the teenager in Los Angeles\u2019 Leimart Park neighborhood navigates typical teenage crises, including being pressured to have sex by her crushes and eventually figuring out how to get a prescription for the birth control pill. According to \u201cPhases,\u201d a memoir the 47-year-old Norwood released this week, even as her character Moesha was secretly dating the boys her dad, Frank, forbid her to see, Brandy was keeping the truth from her real-life parents that she was in a sexual relationship with Boyz II Men\u2019s Wanya Morris, who was then 22 years old.<\/p>\n

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Morris has not responded to multiple news outlets asking him to confirm or deny Brandy\u2019s claims, but he has always denied that he slept with her before she was 18 years old. During a 2020 Instagram Live video, he said he and Norwood were \u201changing around each other so much that there became to be some sort of connection, an intimate connection,\u201d but there was no sex until Brandy was \u201cof age.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can ask Brandy, she will tell you the same story,\u201d Morris said then. But that\u2019s not what Brandy is saying now.<\/p>\n

In her book, she writes that Morris \u201ctook advantage\u201d of her.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was in over my head,\u201d she writes in \u201cPhases.\u201d \u201cSneaking around with Wanya and lying to my parents had become a constant. They barely liked the idea of me dating at all and telling them about us was out of the question.\u201d<\/p>\n

If the two vocalists were sleeping with each other when Brandy said they were, then her parents\u2019 anger would not have been her only concern. Brandy\u2019s profile was rising. There was her music career and \u201cMoesha\u201d to think about. Less than two years after her show debuted, she played Cinderella to Whitney Houston\u2019s Fairy Godmother in \u201cRodgers & Hammerstein\u2019s Cinderella\u201d on ABC.<\/p>\n

\u201cWanya and I understood, with diamond-cut clarity, that public knowledge of our relationship would ignite scandal, potentially threatening everything we\u2019d both worked for, so he and I opted for elaborate fiction,\u201d Brandy writes. \u201cWe would pretend patience and claim we were waiting until my eighteenth birthday before pursuing any romantic connection.\u201d<\/p>\n

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We have seen variations of Brandy\u2019s story before, particularly in the music industry.\u00a0 Long before he was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for racketeering and violating the Mann Act, a 27-year-old R. Kelly secretly married 15-year-old Aaliyah. A 24-year-old Elvis Presley began dating Priscilla Beaulieu when she was 14 years old.<\/p>\n

As far as Brandy\u2019s story goes, it remains unsettling that so many girls \u2014 Black and otherwise, famous and unknown \u2014 report experiences of older men they trusted preying on their vulnerabilities instead of protecting them. Because we are more culturally aware than we have ever been about power dynamics in age-gap relationships, the hope is there will be fewer girls of all races and ethnicities who are subjected to these relationships and the coercion and manipulation that so often accompanies them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As played by Brandy, Moesha was one of the most three-dimensional characters on television: She sometimes made poor decisions, but she got to be morally complicated and live in the grays in a way Brandy, the teenager portraying her, could not. As Brandy details in \u201c<\/em>Phases,\u201d there were so many expectations placed on her as a Black girl in the public eye to be as close to morally pure as possible.<\/p>\n

In an interview with NPR, Brandy said fame, including being Disney\u2019s first Black princess, cost her \u201cmy childhood, my privacy, my identity.\u201d If there had been any evidence then that she was in a sexual relationship with an adult male celebrity, then she almost certainly would have been seen as the \u201cfast and grown\u201d girl who had chased him and not a teenager that, as she now says, was taken advantage of. Her reputation would have been ruined, and his likely would have been unscathed.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the idea of the \u201cfast\u201d girl who seduces adult men still persists, even if not to the same extent. In her book, Brandy holds compassion for her 16-year-old self. \u201cThe shame ends here,\u201d she concludes powerfully in the book\u2019s chapter about her relationship with Morris. \u201cThe silence ends here. I was not a fast girl with a crush. I was not a dramatic teenager who couldn\u2019t handle rejection. I was not an unstable obsessive fan. I was a child. And he was an adult. And it\u2019s time the world understood the difference.\u201d<\/p>\n

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