9/24/2019 R Kelly Full Interview
R&B singer R. Kelly, charged with multiple counts of aggravated sexual abuse, angrily denied the accusations in a new, at times heated interview with CBS This Morning‘s Gayle King.Looking directly into the camera, Kelly, through tears, screamed, “I didn’t do this stuff!
Mar 8, 2019 - In his first interview since his arrest on sex abuse charges, Kelly. Read our critic's review of Gayle King's full primetime interview of R. Mar 07, 2019 R. Kelly returned to jail 24 hours after his explosive interview aired on 'CBS This Morning.' Court officers in Chicago arrested Kelly on Wednesday after a hearing over unpaid child support bills.
This is not me! I’m fighting for my f—ing life!”Kelly was arrested in late February and charged with 10 counts of sexual abuse involving four women — three of whom were underage at the time.
He pleaded not guilty and is currently free on bond.The singer became particularly irate when King grilled him about accusations that he maintained a sex cult. “That’s stupid!” he bellowed. “Use your common sense. Forget the blogs, forget how you feel about me. Hate me if you want to, love me if you want. But just use your common sense. How stupid would it be for me, with my crazy past and what I’ve been through — oh right now I just think I need to be monster, hold girls against their will, chain them up in my basement, and don’t let them eat, don’t let them out, unless they need some shoes down the street from their uncle!”.
Kelly's mounting legal troublesAfter someone paid his bail on Saturday, for the second time in two weeks. Kelly owed his ex-wife Andrea more than $161,000 for their three children.
It's the latest in his mounting legal troubles.Kelly was indicted before a Cook County grand jury on 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse involving four victims.Prosecutors in Chicago say three of Kelly's victims were underage girls and that Kelly abused them over a span of about a dozen years. As disturbing as these allegations are, they are not the only ones.There are also accusations that Kelly has beaten, starved and held other women against their will — a so-called 'sex cult.'
When King spoke to him earlier this week, it was clear the pressure was getting to him.' Believe me, man! This is not me!
They lying on me! They're lying on me! I'm cool, bro,' he said standing and screaming. 'I’m not a controlling person': R. Kelly responds to allegations in Lifetime docuseries'See the thing is that I'm not a controlling person. It's just that I am in control of my household.
Like, say, if you live with me, I consider myself the king of the castle and you're the queen of the castle,' R. Kelly told King.The way R. Kelly tells it – he treats women like royalty. But his recent legal troubles began when a very different story was told in January on the six-part Lifetime series 'Surviving R.'
— everybody says something bad about me. Nobody said nothing good. They was describing Lucifer. I'm not Lucifer.' I was horrified when I started hearing about how he was operating,' says series executive producer Dream Hampton. 'I've heard it called a sex cult.' Kelly denies that he preyed on underage girlsR.
Kelly was indicted in 2002 on 21 counts of child pornography, seven of which were subsequently dropped — he could have faced up to 15 years if convicted. He went on trial six years later and after five weeks in court, walked out a free man.For nearly 20 years, Jim DeRogatis — a journalist and author of an upcoming book about Kelly — has been reporting on the allegations of Kelly's sexual contact with underage girls. In February 2002, he says he got a mysterious phone call telling him to go to his mailbox.' And on the mailbox by the front stoop was a 26-minute and 39-second videotape,' he told CBS News correspondent Jericka Duncan. 'The only VCR I had was in my 6-year-old daughter's bedroom. I popped 'Toy Story 2' out.
And I saw the most horrifying thing I've ever seen.' Kelly on whether people should still buy his musicFrom stages to graduations to weddings, R.
Kelly's music is woven into the most memorable moments, in the lives of people across the world. Three Grammys, the six No. 1 songs — as large as the arenas he filled, to his fans, it was all intimate. Every lyric and every melody, personal.Because that's what music is, that's what music does — breathing hope into heartache, traveling to our most private moments. Songwriters become our friends, confidants, inspiration.But how are we to respond when 'the art' and 'the artist' take separate paths? When the pop fantasy crashes hard against ugly allegations.While R.
Kelly's case may prove to be the most egregious, there is a roadmap for all this — a long history, as 'Entertainment Tonight' Kevin Frazier explains.First published on March 8, 2019 / 8:02 PM© 2019 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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