My Infamous R Kelly Interview Disappeared... Until Now
It's a battle between someone dealing with reality and someone else denying it
My wild R. Kelly interview aired on TV only once. The whole world has seen the moment where I asked him, “Do you like teenage girls?” He responded with the worst answer in the history of interviewing. The rest of the interview has been unavailable until I found a DVD of it in my house and thanks to the magic of digitization, the whole iconic conversation with Kelly is below. It’s a fascinating interview where Kelly and I struggle over what reality is. I repeatedly try to make him grapple with the fact that most people thought of him as a pedophile while he says, hey, I won my trial, that proves my innocence, we’re done here. It’s like we’re in two different worlds.