On being blackballed for choosing his wife over the industry
“I sued everybody, but at the time I didn’t realize what I had just done. What I had just done was that I had sued my career,” said Memphitz, explaining his long relationship with Viacom. “So I was in bed with BET, MTV, VH1, all things under Viacom and they supported anything I had done up till that point. So the fact that I’m with my wife and I get put in between my wife and my career …
“Soon as we get married, Sony fired me. Soon as I got married and I was on my wife’s show they was [sic] like ‘Oh, you’re mister TV man now and you don’t be [sic] at work.’”
