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Kelly Rowland Speaks On Lingering ‘Trauma’ After Sony Ax: ‘One Of The Most Hurtful Moments Of My Life’

<p>From her <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;mathew-knowles-beyonce-solange-destinys-child-album&sol;&quest;&lowbar;gl&equals;1&ast;14zcloj&ast;&lowbar;up&ast;MQ&period;&period;&ast;&lowbar;ga&ast;NDAxMzc5ODg3LjE2ODkzNDgxODc&period;&ast;&lowbar;ga&lowbar;V2HX8YP3XL&ast;MTY4OTM0ODE4NS4xLjEuMTY4OTM0ODIwNC4wLjAuMA&period;&period;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>Destiny&&num;8217&semi;s Child<&sol;strong><&sol;a> days to her solo era and beyond&comma; <strong>Kelly Rowland <&sol;strong>is reflecting on some of the setbacks she faced throughout her career&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Specifically&comma; the &&num;8220&semi;Kisses Down Low&&num;8221&semi; songstress is dishing on how professional decisions jeopardized her childhood friendships and how her infamous situation with Sony &&num;8220&semi;really did a number&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Kelly Says The Destiny&&num;8217&semi;s Child Shake-Up Was A &&num;8220&semi;Heartbreaking&&num;8221&semi; Look At &&num;8220&semi;Potential Failure&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>The matter arose during a recent sit-down on <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;nvhFF4z1RO0" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><em>Yeah&comma; I F&ast;cked That Up<&sol;em><&sol;a>&period; As this <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;instagram&period;com&sol;reel&sol;CuABp&lowbar;3gT7P&sol;&quest;utm&lowbar;source&equals;ig&lowbar;web&lowbar;copy&lowbar;link&amp&semi;igshid&equals;MzRlODBiNWFlZA&equals;&equals;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">podcast<&sol;a> is all about having celebrities relay &&num;8220&semi;stories of failure&comma; f&ast;ck-ups&comma; and redemption&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Rowland certainly understood the assignment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Starting with the earliest days of her career&comma; Kelly acknowledged how &&num;8220&semi;heartbreaking&&num;8221&semi; it was to see her organic childhood friendships be &&num;8220&semi;tainted&&num;8221&semi; by stardom&comma; as <strong>LaTavia Roberson<&sol;strong> and <strong>LeToya Luckett<&sol;strong> were booted from the group in 2000 and replaced with <strong>Michelle Williams<&sol;strong> and — briefly — <strong>Farrah Franklin<&sol;strong>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Regarding Destiny&&num;8217&semi;s Child&&num;8217&semi;s &&num;8220&semi;transformation&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Kelly confirmed that the shake-up was the group&&num;8217&semi;s <strong><em>&&num;8220&semi;first look at potential failure&comma;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;strong> in the words of host <strong>Billy Mann<&sol;strong>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;It was heartbreaking because you gotta remember&comma; with LeToya and LaTavia&comma; we were friends&period; Like&comma; I met LaTavia &lbrack;in&rsqb; elementary school&period; She came over to my house&comma; and she heard me singing with Barbies in my closet&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"CunfePKv1gp" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600" data-captioned><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kelly summarized the situation by stating&comma; <strong><em>&&num;8220&semi;Here&&num;8217&semi;s a friendship that came together organically being shown to the rest of the world&comma; and then that being tarnished with however everything happened&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>To top everything off&comma; the public nature of Destiny&&num;8217&semi;s Child&&num;8217&semi;s shake-up also took its toll&comma; as she felt as though &&num;8220&semi;everyone was watching the ship go down&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;That was hard because people also saw it&period; It was public&comma; and we just wanted to fix it&period; And it was humiliating&comma; and it did feel like everyone was watching the ship go down&period; &&num;8230&semi; That was hard&comma; and we were so young&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"CukHMrYLgre" 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;">Kelly Rowland Acknowledges Sony Trying To &&num;8220&semi;Devalue&&num;8221&semi; Her<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>While some &&num;8220&semi;tarnished&&num;8221&semi; friendships were a road bump in her Destiny&&num;8217&semi;s Child days&comma; Kelly Rowland also addressed another significant blow she faced once she embarked on a successful solo career&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>From making hits like &&num;8220&semi;Dilemma&&num;8221&semi; and &&num;8220&semi;Like This&&num;8221&semi; to killin&&num;8217&semi; her feature role on <strong>Trina<&sol;strong>&&num;8216&semi;s &&num;8220&semi;Here We Go&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Kelly put in <em>work <&sol;em>as a solo artist in the 2000s&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As a result&comma; she shared that <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;sony&period;com&sol;content&sol;sony&sol;en&sol;en&lowbar;us&sol;SCA&sol;company-news&sol;press-releases&sol;sony-music-entertainment&sol;2009&sol;kelly-rowland-amicably-parts-ways-with-columbia-records-as-a-solo-artist&period;html" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Sony Music Entertainment<&sol;a> announcing she would &&num;8220&semi;no longer be recording with Columbia Records as a solo artist&&num;8221&semi; caught her off guard&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;It was the way Sony let me go that really did a number on me&period; I was really f&ast;cking p&ast;ssed&period; So mad that I cursed&period; &&num;8230&semi; I saw it on the internet—it spread like wildfire&period; It said something like&comma; &&num;8216&semi;Kelly Rowland is no longer a viable artist&&num;8217&semi; or something like that&period; I was like&comma; &&num;8216&semi;What the f&ast;&ast;k does that mean&quest;'&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Kelly Rowland also noted that she had been with Sony since she was a teenager and &&num;8220&semi;&lbrack;doesn&&num;8217&semi;t&rsqb; remember anyone from the company calling&&num;8221&semi; to express their regrets&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As a result&comma; the ordeal left her in &&num;8220&semi;a trauma space that &lbrack;she&rsqb; still need&lbrack;s&rsqb; to do some tapping on&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;I definitely felt like I didn&&num;8217&semi;t have any value&period; &&num;8230&semi; &lbrack;They&rsqb; tried to humiliate me and devalue me&comma; and that did not stick very well&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>She then proclaimed&comma; <strong><em>&&num;8220&semi;It was probably one of the most hurtful moments of my life&period; For sure&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Nonetheless&comma; Kelly pointed out that she was glad to see fellow artists stick by her in the aftermath&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;I thought that people wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t wanna work with me&period; I thought the industry didn&&num;8217&semi;t wanna have anything to do with me&period; And that wasn&&num;8217&semi;t the case at all&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"CuJ&lowbar;LkyuCpE" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600" data-captioned><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine; <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-wrap wpra-plugin-container" style&equals;"justify-content&colon; 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