R. Kelly participated in an interview earlier today with HuffPost Live to promote his new album, and ot started out just as any normal interview would, but when host Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani decided to bring up his past underage sexual assault allegations, things took a turn for the worse.
"When you think about R. Kelly, I think people find it very difficult to not think about the multiple lawsuits, the multiple allegations of you having inappropriate relations - sexual relations - with minors," Tehrani asked the singer about eight minutes into the live interview. "What do you say to those people who find it conflicting?"
The whole mood of the interview immediately changes as Kelly becomes angry with Tehrani's question as he answers, "Since you're the one who brought it up, I'll say to you since I don't hear it from anyone else. F--k that. I'm a man that believes what I see. And everywhere I go, from malls to restaurants, overseas and back, everywhere I've been, I get nothing but love. Now, unless all of those people are ticking me and acting...like it's a surprise, I'm going to believe what I see."
The only reason Tehrani even asked this question was because his new album is projected to sell 100,000 copies less than his 2013 album "Black Panties" because of his sexual abuse allegations, according to Huffington Post. With such a controversial history, Tehrani was just wondering how he felt about fans who would be hesitant to support the album, and for the remainder of the interview, the two argue back and forth over this. Eventually Kelly tells her, "If any other negativity comes out of your mouth, I'm going to get up and walk out."
He ends up completely just talking over her for most of the end of the interview, going on and on about how much he loves his fans, even telling Tehrani that he loves her, too. "You don't need to give me any of your love, sir," she quickly replies. "I just wanted to ask a question."
She then says how she has a video question for him from one of his fans as Kelly begins to take his microphone off and says, "You don't have no video questions for me 'cause this interview is over."
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