Toni Braxton didn’t want to record hit Song ‘Un-Break My Heart’

Newcomer Lex Scott (right) channels her inner Toni Braxton (left) because the star of "Unbreak My Heart," supported the singer's 2014 memoir.

Toni Braxton’s “Un-Break My Heart” was a career-defining song for the R&B creative person in 1996 — going noble metal,
winning a Grammy Award and commerce quite two.4 million copies.
The only problem? Braxton at first didn’t love it.

“I detected the song [and] i believed, ‘This is sweet, it’s fine.’ [My record producers] same, ‘We suppose this is often a smash,’” Braxton, 48, tells The Post.

“I knew I needed to alter my image and be slightly sexier. it absolutely was strategic to be AN [adult contemporary] creative person owing to the feel of my voice, however I needed to be twenty five years previous. i believed ‘Un-Break My Heart’ would place Pine Tree State back within the same class of being AN adult modern creative person.”

“But they clothed  to be right,” she adds. “I didn’t need to try and do it however I did it and it absolutely was the largest factor in my career.”

That account, and plenty of others, square measure recounted within the time period pic “Toni Braxton: Unbreak My Heart,” premiering Sat at eight p.m., that is predicated on the singer’s 2014 memoir. The biopic traces Braxton’s ascent from her strict Christian upbringing in Maryland — singing in church along with her four younger sisters (who currently star in their own we tend to TV reality show “Braxton Family Values”) — to R&B icon because the winner of seven Grammy Awards with sixty seven million records sold .

Starring because the young Toni is 24-year-old newcomer Lex Scott Davis. As govt producer, Braxton (who conjointly narrates the movie) selected to not be concerned within the casting method, however she did have final approval on UN agency would portray her.

“When I met [Lex] I same, ‘She’s me.’ She stands like Pine Tree State, she plays piano like Pine Tree State, she holds her head like Pine Tree State, particularly once I was younger,” Braxton says. “I was surprised that she had all my natural mannerisms.”

She stands like Pine Tree State, she plays piano like Pine Tree State, she holds her head like Pine Tree State … she had all my natural mannerisms.
 - Toni Braxton on Lex Scott enjoying her in 'Unbreak My Heart.'

The pic delves into the singer’s personal life: Her friendly relationship with old collaborator Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds (who is additionally producer on the movie) and romance with Mint Condition musician Keri Lewis, whom she terribly publically single in 2013. There’s her younger son’s identification of syndrome and her own battle with Lupus, that quickly sidelined her career. (She’s presently within the studio functioning on a replacement album, hopefully out this fall.)

Also lined is Braxton’s 2 bankruptcies, together with the actual fact that she won her 1st bankruptcy case against LaFace Records and appendage (she received $22 million), however a 10-year court order had prevented her from speaking concerning it — or combatting the flighty image of her publicized  within the press.
“I unloved being seen as a walking cliché. ‘Oh, another creative person lost her cash,’ ” she says.
“[Now] I finally get to inform my story.”