Paula Deen‘s sons were initially skeptical about their mother’s 2013 scandal being explored in a new documentary.
“My thoughts to mom were, I love you and I support you, but I don’t know if you’re going to get from this documentary what you hope to get,” Jamie Deen said of Canceled: The Paula Deen Story — which premiered at the at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday, September 6 — in an interview with Deadline published on Thursday, September 11. “She said, son, I just want a chance to speak about it, which we really didn’t get, mom didn’t get 12 years ago.”
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