Overview

• Canceled: The Paula Deen Story premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival over the weekend.
• In the film and recent interviews, Deen reiterates that she acknowledged using the N-word in a 2013 deposition.
• She describes the context she offered as a past bank robbery incident and says the moment has weighed on her ever since.
• Former attorney Bill Glass argues in the documentary that the deposition question was improper and unrelated to the case.
• Deen says sponsors dropped her within a day, including Food Network, Walmart, and Target, while the underlying lawsuit brought by Lisa Jackson was later settled without an award of costs or fees.