Following on the heels of his on-camera meltdown with CBS’ Gayle King, embattled singer R. Kelly has lashed out at Lady Gaga for pulling their duet from online streaming services.
Kelly & Gaga recorded the song, “Do What U Want,” back in 2013 as part of her album Artpop. Following sexual assault allegations in the docu-series Surviving R. Kelly, Gaga issued an apology for the collaboration and expressed support for Kelly’s accusers. She also referenced her own history of sexual trauma.
Kelly, for his part, isn’t having it.
In an extended clip of his interview with King, he referred to Gaga as a “great talent,” before tearing into her.
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“It’s unfortunate,” Kelly told King, “that her intelligence go to such a short level when it comes to that…it’s not professional.”
He adds that “something like this could happen to any artist.”
Chicago prosecutors charged Kelly with 10 counts of aggravated sexual assault in February following the airing of Surviving R. Kelly. The six-part series lodges a litany of allegations against the singer, ranging from sexual assault to physical abuse.
The docu-series also reveals that he married singer Aalyiah when she was only 15 years old, and shows clips of Kelly admitting to an attraction to teenage girls. Perhaps most shockingly, the film accuses Kelly of keeping a harem of women–many of whom are underage–as a sex cult.
Kelly, for his part, has denied any wrongdoing.
"Something like this can happen to any artist. Anybody famous. Anybody famous can get accused of so many different things." — @RKelly tells @GayleKing in an exclusive interview airing Wednesday on @CBSThisMorning. https://t.co/Ne5j52qxqh pic.twitter.com/hkp5t0Fndq
— CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) March 6, 2019
Related: R. Kelly goes off on Gayle King in unhinged rant that can’t be unseen
Jared MacBride
I’m not sure that whining about other people distancing themselves from him is a good strategy for Kelly just now.
@HarryB at imgur-rd.ml
There is no good strategy for Kelly right now.
DCguy
Always interesting to see people trying to claim they don’t attack women or mistreat them, turn around and scream at two different women in 2 days.
Brian
Still waiting for Gaga to address all of the work she’s done with Terry Richardson. I’m pretty sure he directed the Do What You Want video so it sure would have been relevant when she did the R Kelly apology.
jjose712
Well, she was not inteligent when she decided to do a duet with him.
He had a well earned fame and she really shook herself in the foot when she decided that duet. Do what you want is one of her best songs, with a good video that song could have help Artpop to not flop, but of course there was the video incident and with that the song was killed.
It was a really bad move from Gaga (she had plenty great R&B singers to sing that duet with her and she chose R Kelly)
t
Hmmmm RK – not professional and uninteliigent but multiple Grammys and now and Oscar? That’s fine. I’ll take unprofessional and unintelligent over a pedophile, rapist, mysogynist and soon-to-be bottom boy for some prison sausages you used to call your brothers.
jcoberkrom
Why do his comments remind me of Dotard?
GayEGO
My thoughts as well!
GayEGO
R. Kelly lost it like Kavanaugh did, there must be a similarity between the two, Kelly squawks and blames the parents for what he did and Kavanaugh squawks about his “boofing” which causes him to be too drunk to remember his assaults on girls.
Doug
There was so much bad publicity around RK when Gaga did that duet with him on Saturday Night Live. I remember watching it and wondering what was she thinking to do it. It’s hard to believe she couldn’t even question the possibility of it being real… there was even a videotape floating around that was all over the internet.