The media personality had a conversation with Charlamagne amidst her rumored exit from ‘The Joe Budden Podcast.’
Screenshot from “Provocation with Purpose: Charlamange Tha God Unfiltered,” ‘Hot & Bothered with Melyssa Ford and Breakfast Club Power 105.1 FM, YouTube.
Melyssa Ford recently had Charlamagne on her Hot N Bothered podcast and the conversation turned to misogyny in hip-hop media. As speculation continues about Ford’s departure from The Joe Budden Podcast, she brought up dealing with misogyny in her career.
“I’ve had my own experiences being around a certain group of men who have exhibited groupthink,” she said. “And that groupthink tends to lean very misogynistically. It has an effect on you as somebody who is just kind of absorbing it, simply just because I’m a woman and I’m the woman in the room.”
Ford’s appearances on The Joe Budden Podcast became more infrequent in recent months, before the show scrubbed her name from the intro and Ford took references to the show off of her social media.
Elsewhere in her conversation with Charlamagne, Ford talked to the controversial co-host of The Breakfast Club about politics, relationships and his own mental health.
“It seems like 2020… was the culmination of a lot of things for you,” Ford states, “in terms of recognition of what your emotional and mental and spiritual needs were.”
Charlamagne shares that putting his story out there in the form of his 2018 book Shook One: Anxiety Playing Tricks On Me helped him connect with his audience on a different level.
“You know what made me feel very confident and comfortable to have those conversations? The village that was created from that book,” he says to Ford. “The people that were coming up to me and saying ‘Yo, I deal with anxiety’ and, ‘I deal with thoughts of depression.’ My father telling me, ‘I’ve been on ten to twelve medications for my mental health,’ and, ‘I tried to commit suicide.’”