Before T.I. headed to prison recently, he taped an MTV reality show titled “T.I.’s Road to Redemption” which highlighted T.I using his influence to help change the lives of (7) troubled teens. In the first episode, T.I. took atroubled teen to a funeral home and showed him a dead body of a teenager who donned himself as a “hustler.” Well the family of that teen is suing T.I., MTV and Haugabrooks Funeral Home for the airing of the corpse on television. They say it was disrespectful and done without their consent.
The suit, filed by the family of Joseph Williams, contends that his father, Joseph Williams Sr., and other relatives suffered mental distress after footage of his body was shown in a February 2009 episode of the MTV reality show “T.I’s Road to Redemption.”
A funeral home employee made a false statement, “stating that the parents didn’t know what happened to their son,” says the lawsuit, which was filed Wednesday in Fulton County State Court.
The Haugabrooks Funeral Home on Auburn Avenue near downtown Atlanta is listed among the defendants. The company was paid to cremate the body, the suit says. A representative was not immediately available for comment Friday. Neither was T.I., whose real name is Clifford J. Harris Jr. He is in a federal prison in Arkansas on weapons convictions, with a scheduled release date in September.
T.I. can’t win for losing!
Via: MediaMRS
