TLC may be one of the best-selling girl groups of all time, but they still have work to do – according to T-Boz in the trailer for their forthcoming documentary.
On Monday (April 4), Lifetime and A+E Networks dropped the first peek at the two-hour TLC Forever doc, ahead of its June 3 premiere.
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In the trailer, clips of commentary from T-Boz (real name Tionne Watkins) and Chilli (Rozonda Thomas) are interspersed with footage from the group’s heyday with the late Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes as they detail their meteoric rise to fame and the challenges they overcame to sell over 85 million records worldwide.
In addition to their history, the Matthew Kay-directed film will also highlight what Chilli and T-Boz are up to currently, including prepping a forthcoming summer tour. Questlove and Missy Elliott make appearances as well.
This summer’s tour follows their 2021 CrazySexyCool tour – which suffered a few setbacks including when two Texas dates had to be postponed after T-Boz suffered an allergic reaction.
“Due to extreme cigarette and recreational smoke being present backstage at a previous show, T-Boz suffered an allergic reaction,” their announcement read. “The group has always enforced a strict no smoking policy at their shows in an effort to prevent any health related issues for the group and/or crew.”
Diagnosed with sickle cell anemia as a child, T-Boz has battled the autoimmune disease throughout her career. In a 2020 interview with HipHopDX, she spoke about how CBD has helped her not spend days in the hospital undergoing treatment while explaining the illness isn’t the reason behind TLC canceling another tour.
“Before I started taking CBD — you can go back through our history and they would tell you, ‘T-Boz is sick, T-Boz has ruined another tour,’” she said. “It’s not a cure but since being on it, I don’t get sick as often. I’m way stronger and when I do get sick, it’s not as bad or for as long.”
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“On this last tour, I broke my rib and I was able to still perform with a broken rib. A long time ago that would have sent me into a sickle cell crisis. Because I was on CBD, I was able to go to the hospital for one day, get fluids for the pain and some lidocaine patches and take some CBD cream, bomb and tincture, and I made it through. I didn’t ruin the tour. This is the third tour I’ve been on that I haven’t gotten sick or had to cancel.”
