Former dancehall queen and popular dancer, Mad Michelle, has come out and expressed her disgust at what she describes as malicious rumours that have been circulating in dancehall circles about her.

Mad Michelle, whose real name is Ann-Marie McKoy, says there is a rumour going around that she is involved with dancehall selector Fire Links, but according to her, "Him (Fire Links) neva eva step to me dem way deh. Di most him wi come to mi an sey is gi mi yuh fren nuh."

But life has become almost unbearable since that rumour started, Mad Michelle said, that it has caused her to get into a physical altercation with her partner, Harry Toddler.

"Everybody in Jaamaica and all over the world know that Toddler and Mad Michelle is together, we're together like for five years now, from 2003 when I got Dancehall Queen. Now, because of the rumour, me an Harry Toddler had an altercation pertaining to the whole thing about Fire Links an di argument became physical, we had a fight. People been telling him that Mad Michelle have dis yah man an dat an nutt'n nuh guh suh," Mad Michelle said.

Domestic dispute

In the heat of their domestic dispute, Mad Michelle says things were said that have hurt her feelings. The argument between the two apparently got so bad that Mad Michelle is now advising other female dancers to stay away from relationships with persons in their profession.

"Mi a advise the dancehall queen dem, don't tek up no artiste, selecta, nobody inna di same profession - right yah now mi heart full, mi feel like mi woulda stop dance an all lef Jamaica. Why me haffi tek up a man an show him all my love an now him turn roun an a mek all dem tings yah a happen to mi? Sometime yuh haffi jus leave some man to dem conscience," Mad Michelle said.

Mad Michelle, who says she turned 25 years old last June, says her career is still doing well as "I'm just coming off a tour from places like Montreal, Martinique and Cayman and I'm booked from now until September, October. I'm also working on a new dance song to be released in the next two months or so, but a just to sort out certain things."

Efforts to reach Harry Toddler for a comment were unsuccessful