{"id":197297,"date":"2019-01-11T02:24:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T07:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=197297"},"modified":"2019-01-11T02:24:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T07:24:24","slug":"lady-gaga-apologizes-for-r-kelly-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/01\/11\/lady-gaga-apologizes-for-r-kelly-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Gaga apologizes for R. Kelly collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_98216\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98216\" style=\"width: 705px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17796027_10155345205054574_2987008363239423848_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98216\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17796027_10155345205054574_2987008363239423848_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"705\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-98216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cWhat I am hearing about the allegations against R. Kelly is absolutely horrifying and indefensible,\u201d she said. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ladygaga\/photos\/rpp.10376464573\/10155345205054574\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">File Photo<\/a>:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ladygaga\"> Lady Gaga\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Lady Gaga is sorry for her 2013 duet with R. Kelly in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations against the singer, and she intends to remove the song from streaming services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I am hearing about the allegations against R. Kelly is absolutely horrifying and indefensible,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Posting on social media on Wednesday, Gaga wrote that she had collaborated with Kelly on \u201cDo What U Want (With My Body)\u201d during a \u201cdark time\u201d in her life as a victim of sexual assault. She said she should have sought therapy or other help instead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it&#8217;s clear how explicitly twisted my thinking was at the time. If I could go back and have a talk with my younger self I&#8217;d tell her to go through the therapy I have since then so that I could understand the confused post-traumatic state that I was in,\u201d she wrote. \u201cI can&#8217;t go back, but I can go forward and continue to support women, men, and people of all sexual identities, and of all races, who are victims of sexual assault.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lifetime&#8217;s \u201cSurviving R. Kelly\u201d series, which aired this month, has brought renewed attention to the singer&#8217;s history and allegations that he has sexually abused women and girls. Kelly has denied wrongdoing and in 2008 was acquitted on child pornography charges.<\/p>\n<p>Gaga&#8217;s collaboration with Kelly had been intensely criticized when it was released, in part because of the allegations against him and because of the sexually charged performances they did on \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d and the American Music Awards in 2013. The video was directed by famed photographer Terry Richardson, who also had been accused of sexual misconduct; it was never officially released, but depicts Kelly as a doctor ogling a naked Gaga, the patient.<\/p>\n<p>Richardson has denied allegations of misconduct and said any relationships he had with models were consensual.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Lady Gaga is sorry for her 2013 duet with R. 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