Lauryn Hill snubbed Oprah Winfrey interview request
Lauryn Hill has turned down the opportunity to open up about her tax troubles to TV titan Oprah Winfrey.
The former Fugees star is facing up to three years in jail after pleading guilty to failing to file her tax returns from 2005 to 2007, and she has so far only commented on the legal issues in a rambling statement on her blog in June (12).
In the lengthy post, the Doo Wop (That Thing) hitmaker claimed she
removed herself and her family from society and went "underground"
to protect them from various, unidentified "threats", insisting she
had to use her "resources" to "sustain our safety and survival"
during a "period of crisis".
But she has declined an offer to explain her comments and pour out
her heart to Winfrey in a special interview for her Oprah's Next
Chapter series.
When a Twitter.com follower suggested Lauryn Hill as Oprah
Winfrey's next interviewee, the TV mogul simply replied, "tried.
She said no."
Lauryn Hill, who reportedly owed more than $1.6 million in back
taxes, is due to be sentenced in a New Jersey court in November
(12).