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Aoki Lee Simmons<\/a> has no regrets about <\/span>publicly calling out her father<\/a>, hip-hop mogul <\/span>Russell Simmons<\/a>, over alleged abusive behavior. In a new cover story interview for <\/span>Teen Vogue<\/em><\/a>‘s September Issue, the 21-year-old model explains the reason she chose to put her dad on blast via social media earlier this year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “I don’t regret it,” she tells the mag about her explosive Instagram posts shared in June. Taking to Instagram Live at the time, Aoki said of her father,\u00a0“You cannot just abuse your kids behind closed doors and not take accountability. You don’t get to do this.” She also shared multiple screenshots of text messages with\u00a0her father where he appears to call her mother, <\/span>Kimora Lee Simmons<\/a>, a “piece of sh**” as well as a silenced video of him yelling at her via FaceTime.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In her caption, the Harvard grad wrote, “My father is not well, for years, he needs help and won\u2019t accept that he refuses to acknowledge he is not himself. He has threatened and bullied my sister, my grandma, he has harassed my grandma in the middle of the night in poor health, send a man to my sisters apartment at 2am to scare her. He lashes out at ANYONE who does not say ‘oh Russell everything is fine.’ Well it\u2019s not fine. If ‘I never get a fashion job again’ like he threatens, I\u2019ll be a lawyer I guess and work in criminal Justice. Sure I love my job but if he takes it away from me I won\u2019t die. You don\u2019t threaten my sister and grandma and mother and say ‘who\u2019s gonna believe you I\u2019m Russell Simmons nobody thinks I\u2019m crazy’ well he is.”<\/span><\/p>\n Aoki’s posts have since been deleted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “Part of it was already out there,” she now says of the <\/span>hubbub<\/a>, which also included posts from her mother and older sister, <\/span>Ming Lee Simmons<\/a>. “There were reasons I thought it was reasonable to publish, because it was playing out in, like, a silent bubble.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n While the drama has played out on a public stage, Aoki insists that they are a “normal family” undergoing a normal family conflict.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n She also reveals that a celebrity recently offered her words of support about the familial discord. She does not reveal the individual’s identity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “[That celebrity was] like, \u2018Oh, I saw your thing. I did the same thing when I was, like, 20, and it was fine,'” she shares.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Kimora and Russell got married in 1998 and split up in 2006. She filed for divorce two years later in 2008.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Following Aoki’s June post, the\u00a0Def Jam Records co-founder responded with <\/span>a public apology<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n “God is testing you a little bit, it’s ok, be strong. . . they are called growing pains . . . as you know, we grow through adversity and struggle,” the 65-year-old wrote. “You read my books and heard me preach your whole childhood . . . reach back to old lessons and remember to remember ‘smile and breathe’ \u2764\ufe0f ‘smile and breathe’ . . . you are the watchers of this world . . . so let go . . . be at ease . . . God is driving and he is working on you \u2764\ufe0f.”<\/span><\/p>\n Russell also seemingly addressed Aoki’s videos directly. “DEEPLY sorry for being frustrated and yelling,” he wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n Aoki has become a candid and unfiltered presence on social media, making headlines again in July for <\/span>unleashing a tirade<\/a> against <\/span>Keke Palmer<\/a>\u2019s partner,\u00a0<\/span>Darius Daulton Jackso<\/a>n, following his\u00a0<\/span>comments about her outfit from Usher’s Las Vegas residency<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n