Lil' Kim Upset With Naturi Haughton Over "Notorious" Portrayal

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Despite critical acclaim for Naturi Haughton for her portrayal of Lil Kim in “Notorious, the Queen Bee is still not having it.

A war of words erupted in the weeks leading up to the release of the Biggie biopic, with Lil Kim vowing to “expose” Faith Evans and Big’s mother, Voletta Wallace.

In a new statement that appeared on Bossip, Kim stated that she was in love with the late Christopher Wallace, and the feeling was mutual.

“I feel like I was not portrayed how I should have been in this movie," she said. "I was in love with BIG and he was in love with me. I was never a JUMP-OFF, I know this and BIG knew this. I wasn’t even able to choose who I wanted to portray me in this movie. I would have never picked Naturi, she doesn’t have a Lil Kim aura at all! She looks nothing like I looked back then. We have NO similarities.”

Kim went on to call Haughton’s performance “dreadful” and hinted at legal action over the film.

“Another thing is, I have been dealing with legal matters as far as them not wanting to pay me and shit for this movie, got a lawyer involved, so everything is cool with that, but it still doesn’t change my views and feelings. This is truly Faith and Ms. Wallace’s movie. And Ms. Wallace is right, this isn’t a Lil’ Kim movie and it’s not about me. I didn’t want it to be about me, I wanted it to be REAL though. And that it is NOT. I take no part in this movie and have nothing to do with it.”

Personally, I don't blame Kim for being pissed. Haughton gave a decent performance in the flick, but she clearly had no business playing Kim due to skin tone alone. Clearly this was a slight by Faith and Ms. Wallace to start up a beef that most folks probably thought was long dead. As for legal action tho, I'm no lawyer, but from the little I know Kim would have to prove that the flick damaged her career or rep or something like that before she could take 'em to court for say, defamation. And considering her career is pretty much in the toilet these days, much less her rep and her grill, all in all I'd say it'd be a waste of time going anyway with this as far as legal action. Now if Kim dished all the Biggie, Faith, Junior Mafia and whatever other hip-hop dirt she's got in some huge tell-all or something, that'd be somethin', maybe even make the NYTimes best-sellers list. Shit, I know I'd cop it.