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CeeLo's Tweets About Rape Ignite Twitter Firestorm; TBS Cancels Show
CeeLo Green's series of tweets Sunday comparing rape and consensual sex has sparked outrage across the Twittersphere. As the blowback continued into Tuesday, TBS canceled his reality show, The Good Life, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The network moved to act after Green's social media meltdown prompted the women's advocacy group UltraViolet to launch an online petition calling for TBS and parent company Time Warner to pull the plug on the series instead of "giving him a huge public platform." The petition concluded by saying, "They’ve got to drop him, now."
The singer was sentenced to three years' probation on Friday after pleading no contest to charges that he plied a woman drugs and took her to a hotel room.
He went on Twitter Sunday to address user comments and attempt to defend himself. "If someone is passed out they're not even WITH you consciously! So WITH implies consent," Green wrote in a post he later deleted.
The woman does not remember having sex with Green, but says she woke up next to him in bed. Green's attorney described their relations as "consensual."
"When someone breaks [in] a home there is broken glass, where is your plausible proof anyone was raped," he wrote.
"So if I TRIED but did NOT succeed but the person said I DID then what really happened?" Green added.
That did little to placate many Twitter users, who attacked the former Voice coach: (see lonk for the tweets - some are funny)
The response prompted Green to delete his tweets, as well as his full Twitter account which had more than 2 million followers. He has since restored the account.
In addition to probation, Green is required to complete 360 hours of community service, take drug or alcohol abuse classes, and register as a controlled-substance offender. He is scheduled to return to court on March 2.
"We are very pleased to have resolved this matter with an amicable understanding and we're satisfied," the Grammy-winner said after appearing in court.
Green's The Good Life, which followed him and his crew, launched in June and completed its six-episode run.
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