BY: Denver Sean
Published 6 years ago
We showed you a short teaser of R. Kelly’s explosive interview with Gayle King, but now we have the full thing and it’s just as ridiculous as you’d expect.
The singer, who is currently facing 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, denies ever being involved with underage girls.
Gayle King: They are still talking about you with underage girls. Do you still sit here and say you have never been with underage girls. Can you really say that?
R. Kelly: I sit here and say this: I had two cases back then that I said in the beginning of the interview that I would not talk about because of my ongoing case now.
Gayle King: Ok.
R. Kelly: Fair enough, but I will tell you this: people are going back to my past, OK? That’s exactly what they’re doing. They’re going back to the past, and they trying to add all of this stuff now to that. To make all of this stuff that’s going on now feels real to people.
Gayle King: But the past is relevant with you with underage girls?
R. Kelly: Absolutely, no it’s not. Because for one, I beat my case. When you beat something, you beat it.
Gayle King: You were acquitted.
R. Kelly: You can’t double-jeopardy me like that. You can’t. It’s not fair. It’s not fair to nobody. When you beat your case, you beat your case.
Gayle King: But I’m not talking about the one case in which you were acquitted. I’m talking about the other cases where women have come forward and said, “R. Kelly had sex with me when I was under the age of 18. R. Kelly was abusive to me emotionally and physically and verbally. R. Kelly took me in a black room where unspeakable things happened.” This is what they’re saying about you.
R. Kelly: Not true.
Gayle King: These aren’t old rumors.
R. Kelly: Not true. Whether they’re old rumors, new rumors, future rumors, not true.
Gayle King: Correct me if I’m wrong that you’ve never held anybody against their will?
R. Kelly: I don’t need to. Why would I? How stupid would it be for R. Kelly, with all I’ve been through in my way, way past, to hold somebody, let alone 4, 5, 6, 50, you said – how stupid would I be to do that?
Gayle King: I didn’t say you were holding –
R. Kelly: That’s stupid, guys! Is this camera on me?
Gayle King: Yes, it’s on.
R. Kelly: That’s stupid! 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 a monster and 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!
Gayle King: Robert –
R. Kelly: Stop it. You don’t quit playing. Quit playing. I didn’t do this stuff! This is not me! I’m fighting for my f***ing life!
Check out the interview clips below. Send this man to jail. Period.
R&B singer @RKelly, charged with aggravated sexual abuse, angrily denies the accusations in an explosive new interview with @GayleKing. "I didn’t do this stuff! This is not me! I’m fighting for my f-ing life!"
Coming up, only on @CBSThisMorning at 7. https://t.co/3twdBwiy9G pic.twitter.com/V2YdnxqyWC
— CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) March 6, 2019
WATCH: "I love women. I love all women. I love everybody. But the thing is is that these stories on Lifetime… they're not true. Absolutely not true.”
@RKelly denies sexual abuse allegations in an exclusive interview with @GayleKing coming up on @CBSThisMorning pic.twitter.com/68jb0gjsQs
— CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) March 6, 2019
In an explosive new interview, R. Kelly is breaking his silence about the sexual abuse charges that landed him in jail last month. The embattled R&B singer told @GayleKing that all the women now accusing him of physical and sexual abuse are lying. https://t.co/u4AENVsfAE pic.twitter.com/dVtVjc4Fx4
— CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) March 6, 2019
Have you done anything you regret, have you done anything wrong? — @GayleKing
“Lots of things wrong when it comes to women that I apologize, but I apologized in those relationships at the time that I was in the relationship, OK?” — @RKellyhttps://t.co/u4AENVsfAE pic.twitter.com/4GgwQ6y65k
— CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) March 6, 2019
"I love women. I love all women. I love everybody. But the thing is is that these stories on Lifetime… they're not true. Absolutely not true.”
R. Kelly denies sexual abuse allegations in an exclusive interview with @GayleKing on @CBSThisMorning https://t.co/jf0tk32y8C pic.twitter.com/KMdxPIjEWy
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) March 6, 2019
"Something like this can happen to any artist. Anybody famous. Anybody famous can get accused of so many different things." — R. Kelly tells Gayle King in an exclusive interview on CBS This Morning https://t.co/CNMAdaiuKm pic.twitter.com/hCg1WvoY5H
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) March 6, 2019
“Stop it. You all quit playing! Quit playing! I didn't do this stuff! This is not me! I'm fighting for my f***ing life! Y'all killing me with this sh*t!" R. Kelly told CBS This Morning's Gayle King, standing up. "I gave you 30 years of my f***ing career!" https://t.co/l82RBXbICM pic.twitter.com/wzprtrF7dI
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) March 6, 2019