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“After Neverland,” R. Kelly’s CBS meltdown, and the insidious patterns we refuse to see

The two specials hosted by Oprah and Gayle King are accidental companion pieces showing how abuse and abusers work

Published March 7, 2019 5:00PM (EST)

Minutes before the closing credits roll on “Oprah Winfrey Presents: After Neverland,” the host quotes Maureen Dowd’s recent New York Times piece concerning “Leaving Neverland,” the four-hour documentary detailing two men’s allegations of being sexually abused as children by Michael Jackson, which inspired Oprah’s special.

“Celebrity supersedes criminality,” Dowd writes, and when Oprah repeats those words before an audience composed primarily of rape and sexual abuse survivors, a hushed “ooh” ripples the air in Manhattan’s Times Center auditorium. Oprah nods knowingly. “Mmm-hmm. If you love that line,” she adds, “You’ll love this one: ‘How can you see clearly when you’re looking into the sun? How can an icon be a con?'”

Some may be asking themselves that very same question with regard to R. Kelly, in spite of the pile of testimony against him, much of it provided in the court of public opinion by way of Lifetime’s docuseries “Surviving R. Kelly.” On Wednesday Kelly’s unhinged explosion during an interview with Gayle King aired on “CBS This Morning,” revealed a man so out of touch with public perception and so in denial about his alleged behavior that one had to wonder what possessed him to go on national TV in the first place. (Then again, see: Jussie Smollett. Seems that yet-to-be-named “itis” going around these days.)

King interviewed Kelly at his home in Chicago’s Trump Tower — where else could he live but Trump Tower? — where, at the time, he was free on bond and awaiting trial on 10 charges of aggravated criminal sexual abuse involving four victims, three of whom were........

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