Recently GQ magazine met up with R. Kelly in Chicago for a no holds barred interview. They touched on everything from music, to Aaliyah, to molestation and even Bill Cosby. Check out some excerpts below:
On his relationship with Aaliyah:
…Would you say you were in love with [Aaliyah]?
“Yes. I would say I loved ‘liyah.”
But “in love”?
“Well, there’s a lot of ways to be in love with a person. I was in love with my grandfather, you know. But yeah, I would say I was in love with Aaliyah just like I was in love with anybody else. But in a different, friend type of way.”
And she was in love with you?
“I would think so. Absolutely. I would say that.”
As you know, people know that there was a wedding ceremony and you got married.
“Well, because of Aaliyah’s passing, as I’ve always said, out of respect for her mother who’s sick and her father who’s passed, I will never have that conversation with anyone. Out of respect for Aaliyah, and her mother and father who has asked me not to personally. But I can tell you I loved her, I can tell you she loved me, we was very close. We were, you know, best best best best friends.”
On the alleged sex tape with a minor.
I don’t think there’s many people who believe that wasn’t you in the videotape.
“You say you don’t what?”
I don’t think there’s many people who believe you weren’t in that videotape.
“You don’t think it’s many people?”
I think everyone thinks that it was you.
“Even the ones that buy my albums?”
Yes, absolutely.
“And sell out my shows and buy the tickets?”
On Bill Cosby:
“Well, my opinion on that is, 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 17, 18, or 19, there’s something strange about it. That’s my opinion. It’s just strange.”
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