Toni Braxton and her younger sister, Tamar, nearly come to blows in the explosive season two teaser for their hit WE tv series The Braxtons.
The clip shows all four sisters — Toni, Towanda, Trina, and Tamar — seated for what was supposed to be a family dinner. Tensions boiled over when Tamar confronted her sisters about allegedly trying to dismantle her business, which includes her podcast.
“We have had a series of unfortunate events in the Braxton family lately,” Trina began, setting the stage. From there, Towanda pressed Tamar about not wanting to film with the group, a question Tamar brushed off, hinting that her sisters already knew the reason why.
That reason, according to Tamar, stemmed from backlash after she announced plans to invite their 32-year-old niece Ashlee onto her podcast. Ashlee previously alleged that one of her aunts “cut her off” after she revealed that an ex-partner of the aunt had sent her inappropriate messages when she was 16. Tamar said she wanted to give Ashlee a “safe place” to share her story, but claims she was hit with a cease-and-desist from her sisters before recording.
“Y’all tried to shut down my business,” Tamar shouted, as her sisters denied ever filing the legal motion. “Nobody wanted to come to my defense.” That’s when Toni jumped in with, “So you’re gonna sit there and say ‘Toni Braxton ain’t never had your back?’” the Grammy-winning icon demanded. Tamar stood her ground, responding, “You didn’t have my back,” as Toni quickly fired back with a warning: “Don’t f**k with me… don’t f**k with Toni Braxton.”
The argument escalated as Tamar accused Toni of being the one who wanted Ashlee featured on The Braxtons this season. The “Unbreak My heart” singer shot up from her seat, pointed her finger in Tamar’s face, and doubled down: “Don’t you f**king go there… don’t play with me!”
Before the sisters could physically clash, the teaser cut to earlier footage of Tamar having lunch with Ashlee, who clearly will be the season’s most heated storyline.
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The incident that sparked the heated exchange between the sisters dates back to December 2024 when Ashlee, who is the daughter of their brother Michael Braxton Jr., came to social media with shocking allegations.
In a two-part TikTok video, Ashlee explained that the situation began after she and her sister spent a summer with one of her aunts. Once they returned home, she claimed the aunt’s partner started sending her sexual text messages. “When I leave her partner, her husband at the time, [he] decides to start sexting me. So, texting in a sexual manner,” she recalled. “There was nothing physical that happened. Absolutely nothing.”
According to Ashlee, it was her stepmother who discovered the texts after looking through her phone. While she didn’t name which aunt in her video, she said that her aunt was initially supportive. “My aunt was there for me. She was very kind, very nice and was like ‘I’m so sorry that this happened to you.’ She was very kind, and it just felt safe,” Ashlee shared. “But then, as the years have gone by, it’s like that mood and that assumption that I didn’t do anything because I was a child was not that assumption anymore.”
She also admitted that the shift in energy was painful and confusing for her. “When I say all this is not a dig to my family member because it’s really sad that she also was put in that situation of having to deal and having to handle,” she added. “I don’t wish that upon anyone either. There’s sympathy there, but there’s also so many other aspects of it when you’re a child and you’re denied a voice.”
“This is not a space and place for me to trash my family’s name. It’s a space and place for me to talk about something I’ve gone through and to be able to make light of a situation that a lot of us have gone through that were completely silenced,” she continued. “And for the first time in a really long time, I just feel like I wanna help other people and I feel free.”
See both parts of Ashlee Braxton’s allegations below.