Gayle King was praised by her colleagues for her calm composure during her career-defining interview with troubled singer R. Kelly.
Kelly was previously arrested and charged with aggravated sexual abuse. His interview with King was his first since he bonded out of jail last weekend.
Kelly was agitated and aggressive during the explosive interview which aired on CBS This Morning. King, 64, remained calm and unbothered as Kelly stood over her while loudly professing his innocence.
Her quiet composure sparked hundreds of memes on social media, including the meme below.
“I was not scared,” King told the Oprah Magazine, where she serves as editor-at-large. “I never thought he was going to hit me.“
King said she realized how scary the scenes looked “after Oprah and my kids Kirby and Will called me to ask if I was okay… But I was never worried he was going to hurt me. I was more worried that he was going to get up and leave,” King explained.
“So what I was really thinking to myself was: I’m not done with this interview, so I’m going to let him have his moment. If I stood up even to comfort him, that could have been his invitation to say ‘This is over.’ So I didn’t interrupt his anger and let him have that.”
Sources say the interview saved King’s career as an anchorwoman. She was rumored to have one foot out the door at CBS when her contract ends soon.
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Rkelly needs help NOT MEDIA ATTENTION!
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Exactly.
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IDK why everybody is making a big deal like he was going to hit her. I highly doubt THAT would have happened. Like she said herself, she wasn’t afraid. She was more concerned with him leaving the interview than hitting her. Why do folks always want some type of fighting violence between a man and a woman to happen.Ugh
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Gayle King and Oprah Winfrey are the devil.
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if he is guilty he should pay the price. BUT, do not stop there. Go from the White House to Hollywood to the Vatican; and clean house of all those disgusting child pedophiles, rapists, perverts and sadists. So far, the only ones actually doing serious time in prison are mainly black men. I have a problem with that.
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Harvey Weinstein isn’t dumb enough to give an interview.
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Allegedly, another tape of Robert Kelly abusing girls has been exposed. According to gloria allred.
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From what I heard #gaylekingvoice Robert doesn’t have the money to pay people off anymore..This trial’s gonna be a shit show…
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Rrr got 9 lives I swear
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R. Kelly ain’t did nothing other rich white men ain’t do. mess with young gurls. you have woody, seinfield, elvis and hugh
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SMH
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they comin for R Kelly
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