Dr. Dre admits using colorful language to chew out his ex-marriage counselor, but denies threatening him in any way... and says Dr. Charles Sophy only feels threatened because Dre is Black.
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00:00To a beef between two doctors, we got doctor and doctor violence, allegedly, Dr. Dre responding to Dr. Charles Sophie, the renowned therapist who was Dre's marriage counselor for a time before he and Nicole finally divorced.
00:19You know that Dr. Charles Sophie filed a lawsuit against Dr. Dre, got a restraining order rather, and said that Dre had fired off these texts that were threatening in Dr. Sophie's eyes and that he was wearing a bulletproof vest.
00:38So Dr. Dre is now responding to that lawsuit and he says, yeah, I called you some colorful things.
00:46We got a couple of things to show you. We had to blur it out a little bit, but here's some of the things he said in those text messages.
00:53You're a piece of blank excrement. You blanked with the wrong one.
00:58So yeah, and one more Dre allegedly texted him.
01:02What a little bitch you are.
01:04So all of those things, Dre says.
01:07Yes, I use colorful language, colorful language.
01:11It doesn't mean that I'm threatening you.
01:13Those are not credible threats of violence in the future, now or in the future.
01:19Get over this. And what's really happening here, according to Dr. Dre, is that Dr. Sophie is racist.
01:25Yeah, this is the most sort of damaging claim that he makes.
01:29He says that Dr. Sophie's racism is showing when he makes these allegations, because in his papers, Dr.
01:34Sophie said he went to law enforcement and said he was nervous about Dr.
01:37Dre texting him all of these things in light of what P.
01:40Diddy had alleged against him.
01:43And Dr. Dre is saying, why are you linking two entirely different black men unless you think we're all just a caricature of black men being inherently violent?
01:51Well, here's what he said in the law, in the answer to the restraining order.
01:56Dr. Dre says Dr. Sophie's claim of emotional distress is really just him invoking the racist caricature that depicts black men like Dre as inherently violent.
02:07Yeah. So what happened here was Dr.
02:11Sophie actually got a temporary restraining order, which is kind of an easy thing to get, but it's only good for 10 days as we speak right now.
02:20They are having a court hearing to see whether to make that permanent here.
02:24You have to call witnesses. Dr.
02:26Sophie is in court and we know he's going to testify.
02:28Not sure if Dre is there.
02:30Wouldn't be surprised if he is.
02:32But then the judge is going to have to decide, was this really a threat to Dr.
02:40Sophie in a physical way such that this restraining order will become permanent?
02:45And Harvey, there's one more terrifying incident that Dr.
02:47Sophie lays out where he says that fake FBI agents descended upon his gated community and he thinks Dr.
02:54Dre was behind sending them.
02:55Dr. Dre, for his part, says I had nothing to do with that.
02:58It does sound scary, though.
03:01Hi, Stacey here from Worcester, Massachusetts.
03:05So in cases with marriage, divorce, custody, emotions can run very high.
03:10I myself know that because I've dealt with these things.
03:14So with Dr. Dre feeling upset and utilizing colorful language when it comes to his therapist, I don't think it's a big deal.
03:22I feel like he's human.
03:23He has every right to verbalize how he feels.
03:27I feel like if Dr.
03:28Sophie had this back and forth with a white man instead of Dr.
03:32Dre, do we still feel that he would feel threatened?
03:36Well, Dr. Dre doesn't.
03:38Yeah, Dr. Dre doesn't.