Paula Deen ‘s sons were initially skeptical about their mother’s 2013 scandal being explored in a new documentary.

“My thoughts to mom were, I love you and I support you, but I don’t know if you’re going to get from this documentary what you hope to get,” Jamie Deen said of Canceled: The Paula Deen Story — which premiered at the at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday, September 6 — in an interview with Deadline published on Thursday, September 11. “She said, son, I just want a chance to speak about it, which we really didn’t get, mom didn’t get 12 years ago.”

Paula’s younger son, Bobby Deen, said he had “reservations” of his own about participating in the film. “I was afraid of what might come to light or what [director] Billy [Corben] might unearth and put in the film

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