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Alabama music festival cancels CeeLo Green show following online comments about rape
Published April 05, 2016
Grammy Award winning singer and "The Voice" TV judge CeeLo Green (C), stands with his attorneys after being charged with one count of furnishing a controlled substance. (REUTERS/Mel Melcon/The Los Angeles Times/Pool) (Reuters)
A music festival in Mobile, Alabama, is canceling an appearance by singer CeeLo Green following his online comments about sexual assault.
Mobile Bayfest CEO Bobby Bostwick issued a statement Monday saying Green's performance scheduled for Oct. 4 is being called off. The statement says recent comments attributed to Green conflict with the beliefs and conscience of the music festival.
Green recently pleaded no contest to a felony charge of furnishing ecstasy to a woman during a 2012 dinner in Los Angeles.
After the plea, the former "Voice" coach posted a series of tweets, including one that read: "Women who have really been raped REMEMBER!!!" Green later tweeted an apology.
Two other concerts have dropped Green, and TBS is canceling the second season of Green's reality show.
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