Cee-Lo Green has admitted that a series of controversial tweets he sent amid accusations that the singer had spiked a woman’s drink were “highly irresponsible”.
Green, whose tweets included, “People who have really been raped REMEMBER!!!” and, “When someone brakes on a home there is broken glass where is your plausible proof that anyone was raped,” said his online reaction stemmed from “emotion”.
“I do realise in retrospect that it was highly sensitive, what I tweeted – highly irresponsible,” he told the Sunday Times.
“It did stem from emotion causing some involuntary action, and I do believe that, maybe just possibly, we could all give each other a margin for human error.”
“And in those instances I do realise I’m an artist, that I’m flawed – and sometimes, you know, you don’t think. I was most certainly not thinking, not considering whom I might offend. And to those many people, however many or however few, I’d like to take this opportunity to apologise again.”
The singer and producer was accused of putting ecstasy into a woman’s drink during a date at a sushi restaurant in July 2012. She claimed that she had no memory of the period between dining with Green at a sushi restaurant in 2012 and waking up naked in the singer’s bed, however no rape charges were filed due to lack of evidence.
Following his initial tweets in 2014, the former judge on the US version of talent show The Voice, apologised via Twitter saying that he would “never condone the harm of any women”.
Although his reality TV series was axed during the outcry, Green plans to release a new album later this year. The album’s tentative title at one point was Girl Power.
“At one point it was called Girl Power, because it is all about the adornment, the upliftment,” he told the paper, “the exaltment and the appreciation of all things woman.”
