Christine Beatty
Just when you thought you'd seen the last of Christine Beatty, ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's chief of staff and lover.
Bill Laitner of the Detroit Free Press reports that Beatty will be featured on a upcoming docu-series on Centric, a BET cable station. The show is called "From the Bottom Up."
Beatty is one of one of five black women who have fallen out of grace and are on “on the verge of a triumphant return” from adversity, according to the website of Centric, Laitner reports. The show premieres Jan. 16.
The six-episode show will follow singer Sara Stokes (Making The Band 2), actress Chrystale Wilson (The Players Club), Beatty, Kim Smedly and radio personality and actress Stacii Jae Johnson, the Freep reports.
The series is being produced by talk show host-singer-actress Queen Latifah, and will premiere Jan. 16, the Freep reports.
In 2008, Beatty pleaded guilty to two felony obstruction of justice charges after the Free Press published text messages that showed she lied under oath about her affair with Kilpatrick during a police whistle-blower trial. She was sentenced to 120 days in jail. She was released after serving about 70 days and she moved in February 2010 to Atlanta.
In 2013, she said in Essence magazine that she was on a “journey of self-forgiveness” and has learned that redemption is a process, according to an article in the Detroit Free Press.
“I’ve learned many things because of this ordeal: I know now that no matter how unhappy you are, you can’t look for your happiness in someone else; you won’t find it there,” she wrote. “I’ve also come to understand that while you can’t help how you feel, you are in control of your actions.”
Kilpatrick is currently serving a 28-year prison sentence following his public corruption trial.
