We didn't diss Rihanna or call her name,our interview was manipulated-TLC

TLC is claiming the interview where they reportedly dissed Rihanna for always been naked was a setup and wasn't directed at her .They also say Rihanna was childish for taking her grievance to twitter by posting their  topless photo ...The statement which angered Rihanna was....

Every time I see you you don't have to be naked.'It's easy to sell sex,'It's hard for us to say anything because any time we do, they say, 'Oh TLC must be jealous', but I call a spade a spade"We became the biggest girl selling group of all time with our clothes on and that says a lot,' 'We could go around too with booby cakes [breasts] out all day long.

 In an interview with Yahoo! Music,T-Boz says it was never directed at Rihanna....

Someone asked a question, ‘Have we seen Rihanna’s outfit?’ and I said no because we’re over here in Australia touring and I didn’t know there was an award show and I didn’t know what she wore.We never mentioned any artists’ name. And the unfortunate part is we were giving a positive message to little girls. We were saying that it’s cool if you don’t want to wear clothes. You can do what you want, we don’t care. We were talking to the......

little girls who want to be on television or be singers, even like reality shows. You don’t have to feel forced. Because a lot of record companies, labels say, ‘You gotta take your clothes off.’ And they even took my comment, ‘a spade is a spade’ out of context, sliced, cut it up and manipulated to get a good story. I was talking about television shows. And then you heard me say something like, ‘Every time we see ‘you,’ you’re naked’ and they put her picture up. C’mon man. How can I talk about something I didn’t even see or care about?

 Can I just lastly say this whole conversation had nothing to do with her anyway. It was never about her at all, none whatsoever. And the thing that is saddening to me about our youth today, is that when you think you’re riding for an artist and you start threatening lives and threatening our kids… Man, c’mon man, y’all taking it too far. Don’t nobody care. And we never backtracked on what we said, if we said it, we’ll say we said it. I don’t have a problem. Ain’t nobody gone spank us. So it’s like, how I’m going to get in trouble? What’s going to happen? Nothing? OK so exactly.

On the topless photo Rihanna posted...
T-Boz

The one picture in 22 years of our whole career and it was for breast cancer awareness. One picture you find?

Chilli:

That’s why we did it. There’s this one picture of me on a chair [for a magazine] and it was about loving your body or whatever. So for us, if we do something like that, there is a reason behind it. It’s not just because we just feel so comfortable and this is what we’re doing and it’s just for nothing or to get attention. That’s not what we do.: