Kelly Rowland has made an eyebrow-raising transfer to defend Chris Brown on the AMAs.
The previous Future’s Youngster member took to the stage to announce that Brown was the winner of the Favourite Male R&B Artist award, which he was not current to simply accept.
She then took the second to publicly defend Brown, who’s a detailed pal of hers, as members of the viewers booed him.
“Excuse me,” Rowland stated over the gang. “Relax.”
Watch the video above.
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“I wish to inform Chris, thanks a lot for making nice R&B music,” she stated, including, “and I wish to inform him, thanks for being an unimaginable performer.”
“l’ll take this award [and] carry it to you. I like you. Congratulations, and congratulations to all of the nominees on this class.”
The second has despatched followers right into a state of complete confusion, given Brown’s repute has been within the mud since he was discovered to have bodily assaulted his then-girlfriend Rihanna in 2009.
The Look At Me Now singer additionally made headlines for alleged altercations together with his ex-girlfriend Karreuche Tran, who he dated on and off from 2010 to 2015.
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Tran claimed in 2017 that Brown punched her within the abdomen and pushed her down a set of stairs and obtained a five-year restraining order in opposition to Brown, who denied the allegations.
Brown was accused of hitting a girl in 2021 – an investigation was later dropped as a result of “inadequate proof” – and was sued for allegedly drugging and raping a girl in 2020. He has denied each claims.
In 2020, he reacted on Instagram, writing: “Each time I am releasing music or initiatives, ‘THEY’ attempt to pull some actual bulls–t.”
This isn’t the primary time Rowland has defended Brown.
In 2019, Rowland took to Twitter to defend her pal after he was accused of colourism as a result of a lyric in his music, Want A Stack.
As Twitter turned a pool of backlash for Brown, Rowland tweeted “Chris we love you”, which instantly obtained loads of recoil from followers.
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In an interview with OK! Journal on the time, Rowland backtracked on her feedback.
“I used to be really in Australia, and I didn’t realise…” she stated of the context behind her remark.
“I used to be really giving him credit score for his.. what was it? He’d damaged some form of report, and I stated, ‘We love you Chris’,” she stumbled.
“After which I realised on the opposite a part of that and it was one thing that was taken within the utterly improper manner.”
Watch the video of the 2019 interview above.
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