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Kesha had an abundance of affection and help this week.
After performing her single “Praying” at her Madison Square Garden concert on Wednesday, the singer gave the impression to be in tears, in accordance with video shared on social media by People.
“Earlier tonight Cassie sent me flowers backstage,” she stated, referencing the singer Cassie Ventura.
Ventura’s 2023 civil lawsuit towards her former boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs, which was shortly settled with out Combs admitting wrongdoing, and a video of him bodily assaulting her in 2016 preceded prison expenses towards the music producer.
Combs is at the moment awaiting sentencing after he was discovered responsible on two counts of transportation to interact in prostitution folllowing an eight-week federal trial. He was acquitted of different expenses, together with intercourse trafficking.
Amid the authorized points, Kesha modified a reference to Combs in her 2010 music “Tik Tok.”
She additionally confirmed help for Ventura, who was a witness within the Combs trial, describing her in a social media put up as “a beacon for every survivor.”
Kesha was concerned in a years-long authorized dispute with music producer Dr. Luke, whose authorized identify is Lukasz Gottwald, following a 2014 lawsuit she filed towards him as she sought to exit her recording contract wherein she alleged he drugged, emotionally abused and sexually assaulted her.
Gottwald denied these claims and filed a countersuit for defamation and breach of contract towards Kesha. They resolved the dispute in 2023.
“All of this love is not only for me,” Kesha stated Wednesday. “It’s for anyone who survived anything they shouldn’t have had to survive.”
NCS’s Alli Rosenbloom contributed to this report