Suing BET Has Me Feeling
Like Oprah Winfrey!
4/13/2014 12:55 AM PDT BY TMZ STAFF
EXCLUSIVE
B. Scott and Oprah Winfrey have something in common -- all their life, they had to fight! -- at least that's what Scott says as part of his lawsuit against BET ... claiming he feels like O's character in "The Color Purple."
As TMZ first reported, B. Scott -- an openly gay transgender person -- is suing BET, claiming him during last year's BET Awards by yanking him off the show because he was wearing women's clothes.
Scott says in the deposition -- obtained by TMZ -- before the blow-up he hadn't thought of himself as a transgender person, but during his battle with BET he came to realize that's exactly who he is.
He explains, "I feel like Sofia in 'The Color Purple.' 'All my life I had to fight!' Because of my experience with BET, it led me to the realization that I am transgender because o! f my gender identity and expression, it was specifically because of my gender and not my sexuality that made me a target."
BET just got purpled.
Source : http://www.tmz.com/2014/04/13/b-scott-bet-lawsuit-deposition-oprah/
