Darrell Johnson says he no longer works for R. Kelly after giving a damaging interview about the singer to Gayle King on CBS This Morning.
Darrell Johnson, a member of jailed R. Kelly's inner circle, stepped down as the singer's crisis manager Monday after walking back a potentially damaging comment he made on CBS about not leaving his daughter alone with someone accused of pedophilia.
Johnson sat down with Gayle King on Monday's"CBS This Morning," saying that Kelly is not doing well in custody. Johnson's role on Kelly's defense team had been unclear for months. When he first appeared on the scene in Chicago after Kelly's first arrest on state sex-crime charges, the media referred to him as a"publicist" or a Kelly"spokesman."
Nicole Blank Becker, one of Kelly's lawyers on the state sex crimes charges, told USA TODAY earlier this month Johnson offers"spiritual advice" to Kelly.
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