Twenty-year-old Aoki Lee is speaking out once again and defending herself in the midst of the Simmons family drama.
If you aren’t quite sure about what is going on, let’s recap. The Harvard graduate showed support for her mother, Kimora Lee Simmons, who accused the girls’ father, Russell Simmons, of “threatening” their lives. Aoki took to social media stating that she nor her sister have had a relationship with Simmons as he has bullied them for years.
“My father is not well, for years, he needs help and won’t accept that he refuses to acknowledge he is not himself. He has threatened and bullied my sister, my grandma, he has harassed my grandma in the middle of the night in poor health, send a man to my sisters apartment at 2am to scare her.”
She continued, “He lashes out at ANYONE who does not say “oh Russell everything is fine”. Well it’s not fine. If “I never get a fashion job again” like he threatens, I’ll be a lawyer I guess and work in criminal Justice. Sure I love my job but if he takes it away from me I won’t die. You don’t threaten my sister and grandma and mother and say “who’s gonna believe you I’m Russell Simmons nobody thinks I’m crazy” well he is.”
Having received backlash for her comments, especially after 23-year-old sister, Ming Lee, wished her mother, a “Happy Father’s Day”, Aoki is standing by what she said. She is drawing a line in the sand regarding her father’s behavior.
“Until a short time ago, this is the man who told me ‘always defend and look after your mother girls’ and ‘never let a man curse at you, you call daddy if a man ever tries to yell at you or scare you that’s never ok! Real men don’t shout at women and girls,'” the young model wrote of her father.
Aoki went on to say in a post on her Instagram stories, “So to all the toxic men in my comments using ‘I’m defending him’ to be foul and talk about all the grievances you have with women, you can save it. It’s pathetic. He would agree I know that for sure.”
She followed the picture of she and the Def Jam Recordings executive with a post, highlighting particular portions of what her father told her, stressing that, she is only “…following instructions…”.
Apparently, Aoki’s posts are not only a response to the backlash that she received, but, they seemed to have appeared after her father seemingly addressed the allegations on his own social media, ending with, “DEEPLY sorry for being frustrated and yelling. But know this . . . there are no conditions . . . for sure i love you guys more than i love myself.”
