These people taking shots at Paula now that she’s down, they don’t know her. I know her better than anyone in the world; I stood by her side while she was working 24 hours a day, seven days a week to pick herself up from nothing and become what she became. It’s just not fair that everything she’s worked so hard for could be taken away from her over something like this.”
As for the planned Albany Paula Deen Museum, which is still in the planning stages, Jimmy Deen said that project is not in jeopardy.