Just when you thought all the TEA was poured, TLC is back and here to stay, T-Boz and Chilli are speaking out, just in time for the CrazySexyCool TLC biopic premiere next week. Recently, the duo visited The Breakfast Club in NYC to chat it up about their 20th anniversary album, which is in stores now, as well as the new biopic, but the conversation went a little left when everyone started talking about how LA Reid and Pebbles, who signed and created TLC, did them dirty back in the day with crooked contracts to take all of their money.

DJ Envy started the conversation by saying he hated the formerly married business partners because he’s already seen the VH1 movie and couldn’t get over how greedy they were. T-Boz and Chilli said that what people will see went down just how they remembered it happening, and went into detail about how they sold over $10 million records but only ended up with $15,000 apiece. They even said they had to buy the name “TLC” from Pebbles at $1 million per letter. That’s $3 milli!

On if they exaggerated what happened for the movie
T-Boz: It’s not exaggerated. [When we didn’t sign our contracts] she cried and she did the whole, ‘You don’t trust me.’ That was true. But she had a tear. Remember the tear? We called it a Demi Moore tear. The thing that is true though, she did do some good for us. She put us together. She taught us some things. But then there’s always times when you work with people, there’s always things that you’re never going to agree with and you don’t like their ways. And people part ways, and I don’t think that she ever got over that.

On their lawyers, accountants, and contracts
T-Boz: We were in the same firm as them. We had the same lawyer and accountant as them. It was all one big circle. The lawyer gave us money off of our bill because they were like, ‘We really didn’t think you guys were going to blow up and do what you did.’ So he was like, ‘I apologize to you.’ So it was a conflict of interest from day one. It was so messed up.

Chilli: As a matter of fact, it’s calmed down.

On buying their name
We had to buy it. A million dollars a letter. Three million dollars. She want to say she didn’t get enough money. *laughs*

On why they didn’t walk away at the time
Chilli:It’s our dream and most people go through things and at the end of the day you just want to work really and hopefully sell a lot of records so you have the power to change those kinds of things like bad contracts and stuff like that.

T-Boz: But you also want to learn from your mistakes. You don’t want to sit in this business. We’ve been here 20 years and that’s two decades but you need to learn along the way and soak up all the information you can because that would be stupid to be our age and still going through the same things. That’s not hot.

They also brought up a part in the movie where T-Boz is hospitalized because she’s sick, and Pebbles allegedly says that she needs to get it together to perform at an awards show the next day.

T-Boz: She really said, we had an award show, and she really said, ‘Well I don’t care if we gotta roll her out in a wheelchair, she gon’ do this performance tomorrow.’ I was like…she knew [I had sickle cell anemia]. If you didn’t, you see me crumpled up, delirious and in pain. You know what? Honestly, and this may sound corny, but I don’t hate anybody because what I’ve learned from that, from having a bad dad and ruining my life, is you can’t change people. I’m not going to hurt myself and harbor bad feelings and be grudgeful and all that crap for somebody else. I have no hard feelings. What happened, happened. Good luck with your life. I’m on with mine and raising my child.

Chilli: It took me a minute to get there, too. I think Tionne was her favorite in the group. She really did favor her. Lisa and I would just get it in different ways. She was very manipulative. She used to make us feel like one is the favorite and she used to say that to Lisa as well because we talked about it. It was really tough and it took me a long time.

Pebbles caught wind of the interview and hopped on Twitter to call all the accusations lies, saying she has her “lawyers on deck.”

I’m NOT here to promote something I put on the MAP and yet have been disrespected by because of more reasons than one! Lawyers on deck. I would say being lied on 4 as long & trying to continue to is sadder. But,the continued slander from all will help prove just what was done. Thank you love. It’s not good what they played a part of but it will be dealt with now that the slander continues. TLC without me? No way. I gotta go! Like I said hours ago, have a good one and let’s keep it good and classy from over here. I want to see All do well.. Always have.

I am in shock listening to all this mess and lies on this radio interview!!This is madness!!! It’s SO hard to believe this! DO NOT believe. Love you guys. Not going to comment about this anymore on here UN officially. Dealing with this though.