John Legend on R. Kelly and the music industry: 'We looked away for too long'
Singer and "Voice" coach John Legend has received credit for being among the few members of the music industry willing to speak out against R. Kelly when the R&B singer faced troubling allegations of sexual assault.
On Tuesday, Legend opened up to TODAY about that choice, his participation in a documentary about the accusations, as well as Kelly's recent arrest for multiple counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse.
"I think it's been a long time coming, Legend said. "I think a lot of us kind of tolerated or looked the other way on that issue for a long time, and a lot of people were being hurt for decades. We looked away for too long."
"These stories have been around for decades," he added.
Kelly's alleged decades-long history of sex abuse was explored in the recent Lifetime documentary "Surviving R. Kelly." Legend appeared in the film, the only major artist in the music industry to do so.
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