As promised, CBS This Morning aired a portion of R. Kelly’s first interview since his February arrest on Wednesday morning (March 6). During his explosive conversation with Gayle King, Kelly denied all sexual abuse allegations and insisted it’s nothing more than a social media smear campaign against him.
The embattled R&B star also said all of the women accusing him of physical and sexual abuse are “lying.”
Although the interview started off relatively benign, Kelly grew consistently more agitated, upset and emotional as the 80-minute interview continued. In fact, at one point King was forced to stop the interview so Kelly could regain his composure.
Unsurprisingly, Lifetime’s Surviving R. Kelly documentary was a heavy topic of conversation. The six-part series was arguably the catalyst leading to Kelly’s 10-count indictment.
“Everybody says something bad about me,” Kelly said, referring to the documentary. “Nobody said nothing good. They was describing Lucifer. I’m not Lucifer. I’m a man. I make mistakes, but I’m not a devil. And by no means am I a monster.”
He added, “You can start a rumor on a guy like me or a celebrity just like that. All you have to do is push a button on your phone and say: ‘So and so did this to me. R. Kelly did this to me.’”
Despite his blatant denial, Kelly did offer an apology.
“[I’ve done] Lots of things wrong when it come to women, that I apologize. But I apologized in those relationships at the time I was in the relationships.”
CBS This Morning will air Part 2 of the Kelly interview on Thursday (March 7).
[This article has been updated. The original version was published on March 5, 2019 and can be found below.]
CBS This Morning has just announced an in-depth interview with R. Kelly will air on Wednesday (March 6).
In a tweet from CBS Evening News, the news outlet confirmed the disgraced R&B star recently sat down with Gayle King for his first interview since his arrest last month. Unsurprisingly, a tearful Kelly denies all sexual abuse allegations.
“I sit here and say this, I had two cases back then that I said in the beginning of the interview that I will not talk about because of my ongoing case now,” he says in the first clip. “People are going back to my past and trying to add all of this stuff now to that. To make all of this stuff that’s going on now feel real to people.”
When King suggests his past is relevant, Kelly quickly replies with, “Absolutely no it’s not. For one, I beat my case. It’s not fair to nobody. When you beat your case, you beat your case.”
Throughout the two clips, he continues to deny having sex with underage girls despite his recent 10-count indictment.
“Not true,” he says. “Old rumors, new rumors, future rumors. Not true.”
In the second clip, Kelly is noticeably more agitated and emotional.
“I don’t need to [hold girls against their will],” he says. “Why would I? How stupid would that be for R. Kelly, with all I’ve been through in my way, way past, to hold somebody … how stupid would I be to do that? That’s stupid guys. That’s stupid. Use your common sense. Forget the blogs. Forgot how you feel about me.
“Hate me if you want to. Love me if you want to. Just use your common sense. How stupid would it be for me with my crazy past and what I’ve been though? 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. Stop it. Y’all quit playing. I didn’t do this stuff. This is not me. I’m fighting for my fucking life.”
The interview airs on Wednesday morning (March 6) at 7 a.m. ET.
Narcissistic much, Robert? ???
I guess he sees nothin’ wrong with a little bit of bump and grind.
Dudes getting crucified and the truth is the average 15 year old especially groupies are little slags who are begging for it, and now these ones want a cheque. 16 is legal age in most countries too. The average 15 year old in the U.K is not a virgin. They’re sexually active, stop pretending he’s out here raping children.
I hope you aren’t “grown” typing this. Would you mess with a 15-16 year old? Why defend dude and people who think like him regardless of what the age of consent is when there’s been evidence R Kelly has a problem. He’s a wolf in wolf’s clothing and complete wierdo pedophile.
He’s a grown man, you sicko. Your using other cultures norms to justify a rich man over the age of 30 fucking a 15 year old. That is not okay in our superior, westernized culture. This isn’t Saudi Arabia where middle aged men marry teenagers, like R Kelly did. You probably think Trump is an immoral president, but your on a hip-hop site defending a pedofile
Western culture has the lowest homicide rates per 100k lol. Gun control is another word for slavery and genocide. Why, do you want black people to be slaves again? I’ll tell ya one thing… I’ll never be a slave so long as I’ve got my guns. And stop being a jackass. Westernized culture isn’t just America, and I hope your really not that ignorant. Western culture includes Canada, Russia, most of Europe, South Korea, somewhat Japan, and many other nations. The civil rights era happened. And white republicans voted to finally give our people our deserved human rights. You act like Europe and other nations didn’t go through bad times lol. Europe had GENOCIDES that were far worse than civil rights era. Try being gassed alive or executed in shooting lines. Why does it matter if our leader is a man or woman? Your literally claiming to be against racism, yet your sexist, claiming that your gender somehow plays a role in your leadership skills. I bet If Obama wasn’t president, you’d also be complaining that we never had a black president.
Stop pretending i compared you to Saudi moron I never said anything about Saudi I said your far from fucking superiors compared to the actual civilised western world.
Like Canada, the U.K, Norway, Sweden, Italy etc all decades ahead of your superiority complex and all have 16 a single the age for consent.
America is backwards as fuck. You’re superior only to 3rd world countries, the actual 1st world west and east look at you with pity and embarrassment.
AMERICA IS THE FLAVA FLAV OF THE 1ST WORLD!!!
I wonder why the majority of immigrants worldwide want to come to America with its strict immigration laws… Why not just go to European nations if America is so backwards and shitty? Makes no sense….
They don’t, Britain has more Polish, Romanian, and Asian immigrants per capita, Spain has more English, Russian, and African immigrant support per capita.
You have more Mexican stuff because it’s fucking conveniently located, and the can’t afford anywhere further.
Quit fooling yourself fool.
I mean, you fucking seriously referred to the fact we haven’t had a female president to not being superior to culture in Saudi Arabia, where females have to cover their entire body, cannot have open relationships, are tracked constantly, and just barely gained the right to drive lol. We’re not superior in our western culture to women? Fuck outta here with your ignorant ads
No I compared you to the U.K you fucking illiterates simpleton Tom.
Fyi, your factually more likely to be struck by lightning than to be the victim of a mass shooting. You act like mass shootings are a common thing, in a nation over over 325 million people.
and yet the U.K hasn’t had a mass school shooting in 30 years since banning guns, Australia the same, Europe zero mass school shootings in 30 years.
he thinks he is soooo smart that he can ACT his way out of this one
Jackass!
I bet he wishes he could fly right about now…
Free Kels.
Fucking disgusting pedo protector.
Wacko Jacko in the grave, you gonna be next r kelly
“Do you sit here and say you have never slept with any underage girls” and then he immediately brings up the two cases he won on technicalities and never says no. lmfao why are people still taking up for this pedo.
If donald trump isnt a sexual predator for grabbing women by the pussy, why is r. kelly guilty? We learn it from the top.
Anyone who took that recording as literal explanation of grabbing women by the pussy without consent is a jackass. There’s a big difference between someone saying “they let you kiss them..
Grab them by the pussy. They let you, when your rich”, talking about ADULT females. Then you have Kelly, who at over 30 years old was fucking 15 years old girls, and making videos of it. The fact that you even compare the two is so idiotic.
So, Trump saying adult women let him grab them by the pussy, is the same as an adult fucking underrage girls who are in 9th grade in highschool? FYI, girls DO let rich and powerful men fondle and fuck them. Girls throw themselves at rich celebrities. Anrich celebrity fondling an adult female isn’t even remotely similar to an adult man fucking a 15 years-old teen.
OJ is “inncoent”. That doesn’t mean that we don’t know he got away with murder. Screw R Kelly. Lots of weirdos like him in Hollywood.
and the oscar goes to…
not R Kelly!
He’s been mentally ill. Let the courts decide
That’s a disgusting excuse for sexually deviant behavior. His reasoning doesn’t matter if he did the shit. RK has got some serious fucking issues and enabling his conduct with excuses is just as dangerous as the act itself.
Umm…. He does know that we all know there are VIDEOS SHOWING HIM doing these horrible things.. doesn’t he???
What with all the tears, Kells? You into cryin’ on little girls now instead of pissin’ on em?
Awww somebody hand the poor pedophile a Kleenex. We totally believe you. It’s not like you married a 15 year old child or anything right? And you certainly didn’t have child pornography is your possession either right?…….Foh and kill yourself you creep.
I believeeee that he liesssss/I believeeeee that in jail he criesssss/ got locked up and he starts to prayyyyy/for touching kids every night and dayyyyyy/ now you crying fake tears (crocodile)doing life while we cheer(you pedophile)
I believe I can fly remix
His trying to save himself from the big house I’d do the same. But I wouldn’t be scum bag like him so he deserves what he gets. When he gets banged up we won’t see him again I reckon 20-49 yrs. his turn to be the bitch lol.
R.Kelly will be ok no worries. If he does serve time he won’t be touched. He claims and runs with 63rd and Kingston Folks and 6point star and divide out of Chicago. Keep ya head up KinFolk.
He’ll beat the cases.
Bruh he married a 15 year old child and got off on a technicality for having child porn. Whatever outcome comes from this trial those two things are FACTS. How can you defend this pos? Hope u don’t have any kids in your care, I’d be worried about that.
you sus asf if you tryna stand up for a child molester… no cappp
man lock his nasty ass up
Ok my blaicks ok… the one thing u had against the great whites was that most pedos are of the white.. now with Kelly and MJackson..
You guys have taken that title of yours as well… it’s sad really..there is more to life then drugs being tough,, and meeting ur friends at the cluuubbbbb… lololol..
Dude can def act his ass off.
Carma caught up to you Kellz. Bubba will be waiting for you. Now you get what you deserve. Can’t lie your way out of this one.
Weak performance, not nearly as good as Smollett’s.
My confusion is if he was holding underaged girls against their will…..where in the HELL was their parents? How did they get to his house? Why didn’t anyone call the police? Where was all those “security” guys? Seems to me that R Kelly shouldn’t be the only one on trail. And to those young ladies now wanting to testify…Why??? Because you didn’t get that record deal or become the # 1 dancer for R Kelly contract? Instead your parents where paid well………A lot of stuff not adding up
First off your spelling and grammar is terrible. Second it doesn’t fucking matter about the girls,maybe they were runaways, it’s irrelevant. It was R.Kelly who was molesting them, he was the adult here and the one who has already been exposed for marrying a 15yo and other sick shit.
LOL! First, you need to check your spelling and grammar son! Secondly, you do not know what the fuck happened in his presence. Stop listening to public opinion and use your brain. He made some valid points about the awareness off those under age parents.
Once this scumbag is found guilty his assets should be seized and the money given to charities who deal with victims of predators like him
Lol some big ary.an f.aggot is finna have a lot of fun with this rodent mahfucka
‘Epic evil meltdown’. This is why I hate the fkn media.
#freerkelly
Shout out to R. Kelly for keeping it real. Free the king!!!
Hoes caping for hoes. The rest of us don’t care about young chicks that were already sexually active tyring to come up That’s not pedophilia. That’s everyday life in the hood, bruh. Free Kels.
BIG FACTS
It happens in the hood, on the rez, and in the burbs. And its still wrong…Y’all pedophile sympathizers must not have daughters.
cits almost like there my girlfriend” “I like all women”
White bitch stfu talking about u thought He was gon hit her……White people know they crazy,racist, and SCARY AF….U BITCH U…..NOT ALL WHITE PEOPLE I TAKE THAT BACK!!!! BUT THIS STANKING ASS PALE FACE BITCH IS