Leslie McSpadden
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84 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard Jun 2025
Leslie McSpadden’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I don't think anybody believed me. Like, because they just couldn't believe that I was having sex. Yeah. I didn't know anything about it. I just was pregnant. We all were. That's why we didn't believe her. Yeah. I'm telling you, that's the God's honest truth. Like, I was never really talked to about that. I was dealing with somebody and...
We was in a relationship, supposed to be boyfriend-girlfriend. My mom knew, his mom knew, and we spent time together. And then for, you know, I was scared. I didn't know what was wrong with me. But one thing that I did know was I want to have this baby.
They worked with me because I was definitely trying. I was showing up and I was giving it my best, but I did not use it as an excuse. You know, I still did what I was supposed to do when I showed up to school. But of course, you know, I would fall asleep in some classes and
People would wake me up and tell me, oh, they were talking about, they were pointing, you know, I would go through that, of course, you know, but hey, it comes with the territory, you know, of being a teen mom.
So May 20th, 1996, I had a doctor's appointment and my doctor's name was Dr. Ikuno. He was so nice to me. And I would go in. My mom always went to the doctor with me. And he said, come here, come here. Look, look. I was so embarrassed. He telling her to look down there. And he said, she's going to have this baby tonight. You see this? She has lost her plug. I was like, what the hell is a plug?
What's a plug? So I go home. And my mom said, come on, we're going to Granny's house. I went to my grandma's house. She had made a large pot of spaghetti. And I remember her saying to me, eat this now because when you go to the hospital, they're not going to let you eat. My first baby. So I was like, really? So I ate the spaghetti. And about 10 o'clock, I went to the hospital.
I remember going in and being put all up, you know, plugged up and everything. And then I started feeling nauseated. And so they brought me a cup, and there comes all the spaghetti up. It was like, Granny, I'm still hungry now. And so many of my family members were there, cousins, aunts, uncles. It was so many people there for Mike's birth. And within 44 minutes, Mike was out. I got there at 10.
He was born at 1044.
I chose his middle name, which was Orlando's. And then I wanted to give Mike a name of my own that I wanted to name him, you know, and that was Darion. And I wanted Mike to have his own identity. I wanted him to be his own person, an individual. And his dad didn't want a junior. He didn't want that on there. So that's how we came up with Michael Orlando's Darion Brown.
And that's his name, M-O-D-B. Leslie called him Mike Mike.
I just remember my mom and them coming in the room to see him, and I was holding him. And he had a little cone head, and she brought his first outfit. It says, I love my grandma. That was his first picture. And, um... Life began for us.
When you have a baby, Granny does not come to the hospital. You have to stop at her house on your way home. So when I stopped at her house, some more of my family was there to greet Mike and see Mike. And I remember my oldest aunt, her name is Barbara. She was holding Mike. She said, don't you be keeping my niece up all night because she got to go to school.
So that was very important to me to go back to school and graduate.
I had to make these people proud of me, you know, because I had a little bump in the road, but we're going to keep going. And that's what I did.
We had a lot of happy times. I used to put him in little tank tops with the little floral shirts open. Oh my God, so many. Putting him in his suits for Easter and making his Easter baskets. Just celebrating every holiday with him, dressing him up. I love to put him in like this little sailor suit I have, like when he was still, he wasn't even one yet.
Just embracing motherhood, you know, and your cute little sweet baby, you know, all of that.
Mike had a dog when he was one years old. All his dogs have been named Spike. And Spike was Pike because he couldn't say the S when he was one. But my father's father breeded miniature Dobermans. He was sandy red. Everybody in the neighborhood knew Spike. When he was one, my mom was in the backyard hanging clothes on the line. And I went out and I said, Mama, where is Mike, my kid?
And she was like, he was in there with you. And she just instantly started yelling, you better find him. Well, when I went outside, I was asking, y'all see Mike, my kid? Everybody like, no. Something told me to walk towards Ms. Brown's house. Well, I got to the end of the street and I see a dog tail and I see a pamper. And it's him and the dog.
I'm so glad that he hadn't crossed the street, but he had got out the house walking. Walked around. He knew where his grandma stayed and was fitting to go over there to her house.
Something happened to Spike. I can't remember. But then our neighbor gave us another dog. And that was Spike, too.
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