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Disgraced Food Network star Paula Deen hasn’t been doing so great since she owned up to racist remarks she said about African-Americans.

After enduring the crumbling of her restaurant empire, she’s finally ready to share the hardships of the aftermath of the backlash she received.

Instead of forcing Barbara Walters out of retirement like a sane celebrity however, she’s looking to make a quick buck off of it.

Via MSN:

The former Food Network star has been working on a documentary about herself and her downfall — triggered in 2013 by her acknowledgment that she’d used a racial slur in the past — but it will only be available to subscribers of her new website, the Paula Deen Network. Recipe content on the site will be free, but viewers will need to pay $9.99 a month to view videos.

“We hope to have it out the first of the year and tell everybody the true story of what really happened,” Deen said of the documentary during a recent telephone interview. “It was a painful year for me. It was a hurtful year when I found myself being labeled for something I was not.”

The website, which launches Wednesday, will feature an ambitious array of original video content, including traditional cooking shows as well as lifestyle and game show segments, all starring Deen and her sons. The site, which will include no outside advertising or sponsors, also includes thousands of Deen’s recipes, as well as menu planning tools.

The new site, which is being overseen by longtime Deen producer Gordon Elliot, also will feature all of the content Deen produced during her more than 10 years at the Food Network. The network parted ways with her following the revelations about her comments. Deen wouldn’t say how much it cost to acquire the videos, only that it was “very valuable to us.” That content will be slowly rolled out for subscribers.

Sometimes, the struggle will be televised.

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