Gayle King also said she was never 'afraid' of R. Kelly when conducting the interview.
CBS News's Gayle King gave disgraced singer R. Kelly to speak his side of the story on Tuesday, something King suspected she would be"clobbered" for.
"I actually never thought that," King began,"I thought I might get accidentally clobbered, but I didn't think that he would deliberately try to hurt me. I never felt in danger talking to him. I just felt he had a lot of emotion, he wanted to release it." Gayle King opened up about her R. Kelly interview. Here, King is pictured attending the 2019 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on February 24, 2019, in Beverly Hills, California. Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images
Kelly addressed the allegations with King on Tuesday, which he denied by suggesting they were simply"not true." During this interview, he even stood up and shouted.
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