Paula Deen recounts two men forcing her to apologize after she admitted to using racial slurs in 2013. “What am I apologizing for?” the author and television personality recalls saying.

During an interview with the Hollywood Reporter in support of a new documentary called Canceled: The Paula Deen Story , the 78-year-old celebrity cook works to get her full story into the public discourse.

Instead, Deen says, only the story of the woman who sued her is remembered.

“They took this woman [the plaintiff], who is a known liar, they took her word and ran with it, and no one ever investigated any further,” Deen says. “I was not going to be happy until the world saw the truth.”

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In 2013, Deen and her brother Bubba Hiers

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