No one here is expecting her to take responsibility for his rapes or sexual assaults.

I like to think 20 yrs of childhood nostalgia isn’t coloring my objectivity, but I think you put into words a lot of how I feel about it as well. This has been investigated over and over. He was DEF a weirdo and hanging out with children because he related to them emotionally probably was not a good look, but they’ve…

I don’t expect her to apologize for Kelly’s behavior. I expect her to apologize for her own: in particular, participating in the enrichment and promotion of multiple sex offenders simply to be “provocative.”

I read about the first trial when I got older and felt like he was being extorted. Didnt heavily read into the second trial but remember the Bashir documentary that helped kick the investigation into gear. 

Nah, Gaga and Kelly can both be garbage. I’ve got the attention and outrage for both.

I agree that trauma can make people behave in ways that they wouldn’t expect. I don’t think that that part of her statement is necessarily false or an excuse.

“R. Kelly and I have, sometimes, very untrue things written about us,” Gaga reportedly said in 2013. “In a way, this was a bond between us. We were able to say, ‘The public, they can have our bodies, but they cannot have our mind or our heart.’ It was a very natural collaboration.” From the USA Today story on this.…

This statement, at this time, has everything to do with her Oscar campaign.

I mentioned this before on Jezebel, and her Little Monsters came for me hard, but, in for a penny, in for a pound.

She wants to win that Oscar but I hope she loses. She’s a fake. She jumps on every bandwagon hot topic and expects us to believe it happened to her. She’s fake. The 100 people in the room quote is actually a Madonna quote. She didn’t care working with R. Kelly and the song is a rape song, worse than Blurred Lines…

Any objection to her working with R. Kelly and Terry Richarson fell into deaf ears with her, so I don’t even think this is a coming late to the party scenario, it is damage control 

I cannot take this seriously Gaga. You worked with two known pervert degenerate rapists and released the project then quietly distanced yourself when a few people called bullshit. It’s more honest to say you ignored the rumours and moved forward with the project because you thought it would work out.

She needs to donate every dime she made off that fucking song to charity.

I’m calling bullshit...the Surviving R. Kelly people reached out to her as one of his past collaborators and she opted to not participate. She also could have released a statement before it aired. This is damage control pure and simple.

And what about Terry Richardson with whom she regularly works? Seems she doesn’t care until the full public tide turns to real ire.

“If I could go back and have a talk with my younger self I’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 - or if therapy was not available to me or anyone in my situation - to seek help, and speak as openly and honestly as possible…

Okay, girl. I see you and your Oscar campaign.

I’m inclined to be sympathetic because of her state of mental health at the time, but “these allegations I am hearing” as though this is the first time it’s come out?

I am so down the middle about it, I remember him hanging out with all those famous child stars and thinking it was so very weird, but literally none of them said anything happened. Corey Feldman is a huge advocate for victims of childhood abuse and would be the first one to step up and say something- and he’s said…

Y’all, women who kill their abusers are heroes. They’re killing terrorists and human rights abusers, they should be celebrated.