Kelly Rowland Defends Support Of Chris Brown At AMAs: ‘Everybody Deserves Grace’

Kelly Rowland, 41, wants radical to amusement “grace” to Chris Brown, 33, who she controversially stood by astatine the 2022 American Music Awards this past weekend. Kelly defended the “Forever” vocalist who won Favorite Male R&B Artist but was booed by the assemblage for his troubled past, including his carnal battle on Rihanna. Kelly was asked astir supporting Chris by a TMZ reporter who approached the erstwhile Destiny’s Child vocalist astatine her car successful West Hollywood connected Monday.

Kelly Rowland astatine the 2022 American Music Awards (Photo: ABC)

“I judge that grace is precise real,” Kelly explained. “And we each request a dose of it. And earlier we constituent fingers astatine anybody, we should recognize however grateful we are for each infinitesimal that we get. Even our ain things that we have. I conscionable deliberation it’s important to retrieve to beryllium human. We are humans.”

When the newsman asked if Chris should beryllium “forgiven”, Kelly responded, “We each request to beryllium forgiven for thing that we could beryllium doing. Anything that we’re thinking. We each travel up abbreviated successful immoderate benignant of way. And grace is real. We are humans. And everybody deserves grace.”

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Kelly was presenting the AMA that Chris won, erstwhile the assemblage reacted negatively to the R&B vocalist who wasn’t astatine the grant show. “Excuse me. Chill out,” Kelly said to the rowdy audience, earlier she praised Chris. “I privation to archer Chris, convey you truthful overmuch for making large R&B music, and I privation to archer him, convey you for being an unthinkable performer. I’ll instrumentality this grant and bring it to you — I emotion you. Congratulations, and congratulations to each the nominees successful this category.” Interestingly, Chris was expected to execute astatine the AMAs with a Michael Jackson tribute, but it was canceled astatine the past minute. Before the show, helium shared a video connected Instagram that showed disconnected his rehearsals, and helium captioned it with: “U SERIOUS? WOULDVE been the ama show but they cancelled maine for reasons unknown.”

Some fans haven’t forgiven Chris for physically assaulting Rihanna, 34, aft the 2009 Grammy Awards. They were dating astatine the clip and broke up aft the attack, but they coiled up concisely getting backmost unneurotic successful 2012 and 2013 earlier calling it quits.