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R Kelly offers sympathy to Bill Cosby
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 21 January 2016
R Kelly has said he sympathises with comedian Bill Cosby, because he too has been accused of sexual assault.
Speaking to GQ, the singer said: “I don’t know what happened. I’m a fan of Bill Cosby’s from the Bill Cosby show, of course – who’s not? – and for me to give my opinion on something that I have no idea if it’s true or not, all I can say is that it was a long time ago. And when I look on TV and I see the 70, 80, 90 year old ladies talking about what happened when they were seventeen, eighteen or nineteen, there’s something strange about it. That’s my opinion. It’s just strange”.
He added: “If God showed me that they were telling the truth, I would say that’s wrong. I don’t care if it was a zillion years ago. But God would have to do that, because God is the only one can show me that. No man can tell me that. No woman can tell me that. And when you wait 70 years, 50 years, 40 years, to say something that simple, it’s strange. You know why I say that is because it happened to me, and it wasn’t true”.
Of course, that’s not what happened to R Kelly at all. His accusers all came forward relatively soon after the alleged incidents. To my knowledge, no 90 year old ladies have ever accused R Kelly (or Bill Cosby, for that matter) of sexual assault.
And if God is the only person Kelly will listen to, then we’re going to be here for a long time. Though if we are waiting for God’s judgement on all such allegations, that does make it seem a bit strange that he paid money to some of his accusers through out-of-court settlements, despite denying their claims.
