Kelly Rowland slams cancel culture: ‘Try to remember not to judge others’

She concluded the post urging fans to “stop tryin to be god,” and asking followers in the caption: “So what light are you bringing into the world?”

Rowland’s thoughts on cancel culture come a month after she opened up about living in the shadow of her Destiny’s Child bandmate Beyoncé.

Speaking to The Voice Australia contestant Chris Sebastian about going solo after the group parted ways, Rowland said “Can you imagine what it’s like being in a group with Beyoncé?”

She continued: “I would just torture myself in my head. Like, I can’t wear this dress because they’re going to say it’s like B. Or I can’t have a song like that because it sounds too much like B. They’re gonna compare anyways.

“I would be lying if I said no, it’s never bothered me. That’s bull,” she added.

“There was a whole decade, if I am being completely honest, a decade, where it was like the elephant in the room. It was the thing that would constantly be on my shoulder,” she admitted.

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Last year, Beyonce’s father Mathew Knowles, former manager of Destiny’s Child, came forward with claims that members of 90s R&B group Jagged Edge had “harassed” Rowland and his daughter when they were minors.

He specifically recalled an incident that took place in the later 90s while Jagged Edge and Destiny’s Child were touring together, and sharing the same bus, theGRIO previously reported. 

“Now, remember the girls are minors: They’re 16-years-old, the guys are 21- and 22-years-old,” said Knowles.

“I got a call from Kelly and Beyoncé … saying that they were constantly being harassed by two of the members in Jagged Edge,” he continued. “I couldn’t have that. I literally had to put the guys off the bus in Baton Rouge, La.”

Knowles chose not specify exactly which two members of Jagged Edge he was talking about, but said the incident “began all of this drama” which led to former Destiny’s Child members LaTavia Roberson and LaToya Luckett getting new reps and ultimately leaving the group in 2000.

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