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Kelly Rowland Doubles Down On Defending Chris Brown, ‘Everybody Deserves Grace, Period’

<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;kelly-rowland-praises-chris-brown-at-amas-after-booing-crowd-and-canceled-performance&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Kelly Rowland<&sol;a> is doubling down and proclaiming that Chris Brown deserves to be forgiven for past wrongs&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On Monday&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;tmz&period;com&sol;2022&sol;11&sol;22&sol;kelly-rowland-forgive-chris-brown-amas-awards-show&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><em>TMZ<&sol;em><&sol;a> caught up with Kelly in West Hollywood&comma; California&comma; and asked about her experience at the 2022 American Music Awards &lpar;AMAs&rpar;&period; Specifically&comma; the interviewer was interested in getting more details on Kelly&&num;8217&semi;s support of Chris&comma; who won in the <em>Favorite Male R&amp&semi;B Artist <&sol;em>category despite having his Michael Jackson tribute canceled&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While accepting the award on Breezy&&num;8217&semi;s behalf&comma; Kelly lauded the &&num;8220&semi;Ayo&&num;8221&semi; singer with praise after putting a disgruntled crowd in check&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;I want to tell Chris&comma; thank you so much for making great R&amp&semi;B music&comma; and I want to tell him thank you for being an incredible performer&period; I&&num;8217&semi;ll take this award &lbrack;and&rsqb; bring it to you&period; I love you&period; Congratulations&comma; and congratulations to all the nominees in this category&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"ClNMldKpIGv" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600" data-captioned><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Twitter Had Mixed Reactions To Kelly Showing Chris Love<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>After Kelly publicly stood by Breezy at the AMAs&comma; people swiftly began sharing their thoughts on the matter&period; Fans have debated on their support of Breezy since the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;chris-brown-commented-on-one-of-rihannas-pictures-and-fans-had-a-lot-to-say-about-it&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">2009 incident when Chris Brown physically assaulted his then girlfriend&comma; Rihanna&comma;<&sol;a> sending shockwaves through social media&period; While many were outraged&comma; some were supportive of the &&num;8220&semi;Kisses Down Low&&num;8221&semi; singer&&num;8217&semi;s stance&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1594509032684806144" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1594536687446634496" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1594509798275682304" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1594508652810862593" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1594807396576141314" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1594544322933727232" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1594519712691625985" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1594809178412949532" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Kelly Thinks Breezy Deserves Another Chance<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Now&comma; Kelly is elaborating on her comments about Chris and straight-up declaring that he&comma; like everyone else&comma; deserves grace&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The artist began by sharing that people need to be more grateful and less critical&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;I believe that grace is very real and we all need a dose of it&period; And before we point fingers at anybody&comma; we should realize how grateful we are for every moment that we get&period; Even for our own things that we have&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>She further explained that humans are going to make mistakes&comma; and they should be allowed to grow and better themselves&period; Kelly also outright said&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Everybody deserves grace&comma; period&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;I just think it&&num;8217&semi;s important to be humans&comma; we are humans&period; We all need to be forgiven for anything that we could be doing&comma; anything that we&&num;8217&semi;re thinking&period; We all came up short in some way and grace is real&period; We are humans&comma; and everybody deserves grace&comma; period&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><iframe src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;share&period;tmz&period;com&sol;watch&sol;2022-11-21-112122-kelly-rowland-1520616-810&sol;" width&equals;"560" height&equals;"395" frameborder&equals;"0" allowfullscreen&equals;"allowfullscreen"><&sol;iframe><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"ClQ9FhLuTA6" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600" data-captioned><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Rihanna Previously Revealed That She Forgives Chris Brown<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>While on the subject&comma; we should note that Rihanna herself has expressed forgiveness over Chris&&num;8217&semi;s 2009 assault on her&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>During a 2020 episode of <em><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;open&period;spotify&period;com&sol;episode&sol;4I1l066xWfaVfNRdHgtf9a" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Oprah&&num;8217&semi;s Super Soul<&sol;a> <&sol;em>podcast&comma; Oprah Winfrey unveiled a 2012 interview between her and the &&num;8220&semi;Lift Me Up&&num;8221&semi; singer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;sports&period;yahoo&period;com&sol;rihanna-chris-brown-112742317&period;html" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Rihanna<&sol;a> spoke on her relationship with Chris during the sit-down&period; At the time&comma; she said that they were &&num;8220&semi;very close friends&&num;8221&semi; who still had love for each other&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;We&&num;8217&semi;ve been working on our friendship again&period; Now&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;re very&comma; very close friends&period; We&&num;8217&semi;ve built up a trust again&&num;8230&semi;We love each other&comma; and we probably always will&period; And that&&num;8217&semi;s not something we&&num;8217&semi;re ever going to change&period; That&&num;8217&semi;s not something you can shut off&comma; if you&&num;8217&semi;ve ever been in love&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>She continued&comma; noting that she forgave Breezy because she &&num;8220&semi;cared about him still&&num;8221&semi; and wanted to move on with life&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;I truly love him&period; So&comma; the main thing for me is that he&&num;8217&semi;s at peace&&num;8230&semi;I thought I hated Chris&comma; and I realized it was love was tarnished&period; It looked like hate because it was ugly&comma; angry&comma; it was inflamed&comma; it was tainted&period; And I realized that what it was is I had to forgive him because I cared about him still&period; And the minute I let go of that&comma; I started living again&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Do you believe people should give Chris Brown grace&quest; Also&comma; what do you think about Kelly Rowland going out of her way to stand by him&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine; <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-wrap wpra-plugin-container" style&equals;"justify-content&colon; center&semi;&semi;"> <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-container" data-ver&equals;"1&period;3&period;10" data-post&lowbar;id&equals;"102430" data-show&lowbar;count&equals;"true" data-enable&lowbar;share&equals;"onclick" data-behavior&equals;"regular" data-animation&equals;"true" data-share&lowbar;url&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;kelly-rowland-believes-the-world-should-forgive-chris-brown&sol;" data-secure&equals;"b58d235200"> <div class&equals;"wpra-call-to-action" style&equals;"color&colon; 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