The [Timber] crooner Kesha alleges in a lawsuit that pop
producer Dr. Luke—who's co-written hits for her,
Miley Cyrus, and Katy Perry, among many others
—emotionally abused her for years, once
threatened her physically, and on one occasion
raped her. He's filed a countersuit accusing her
of extortion . From TMZ:
Check the full story below:
Kesha was sexually, physically,
verbally and emotionally abused for 10
years by her producer, Dr. Luke , to the
point where she nearly died.
According to a new lawsuit—obtained
by TMZ—Kesha claims Dr. Luke was
abusive towards her almost from the
get-go—when she signed on with him
at 18—and made repeated sexual
advances toward her. She claims he
would force her to use drugs and
alcohol to remove her defenses.
The suit says that the producer
raped Kesha after giving her the drug GHB, the
New York Daily News reports :
Kesha, whose real name is Kesha
Rose Sebert, claims she woke up
naked in Dr. Luke's bed the following
afternoon feeling sore, sick and unable
to remember how she got there.
“Ms. Sebert immediately called her
mother and made a ‘fresh complaint,’
telling her that she was naked in Dr.
Luke’s hotel room, she did not know
where her clothes were, that Dr. Luke
had raped her, and that she needed to
go to the emergency room,” the
blockbuster lawsuit claims.
“Ms. Sebert later learned that the
‘sober pills’ Dr. Luke had given her
were actually a form of gamma-
hydroxybutyrate (GHB), more
commonly known as the date rape
drug, allowing him to bring Ms. Sebert
back to his hotel room alone and rape
her while she was unconscious,” the
lawsuit states.
Dr. Luke's countersuit alleges that Kesha is
fabricating allegations against him because she
wants to terminate their contract, and that she
has previously attempted to extort him by
threatening to leak rumors about him to a
blogger.
A New Yorker profile of Dr. Luke from last year
alludes to tension between the two:
He signed Kesha (whose full name is
Kesha Rose Sebert) as both a writer
and an artist in 2005, when she was
eighteen, and helped establish her with
the hits “Right Round” and “Tik Tok.”
But now that her pop-star dreams had
come true she was proving hard to
control. Relations reportedly became
strained last year during the making of
her sophomore album, “Warrior,” which
Kesha wanted to use to establish her
rock bona fides; others involved in the
making of the record felt that she
should continue in the party-girl
dance-pop vein of her début,
“Cannibal.” She recorded “Die Young,”
produced by Dr. Luke, Cirkut, and
Benny Blanco, and released it as the
first single, in the fall of 2012. The
song topped some charts, but
immediately after the December 14th
Newtown massacre it all but
disappeared from the radio, and the
Kesha haters went into a frenzy on
Twitter. While Kesha had previously
claimed to have written the lyrics by
herself, on December 18th she tweeted
back, “I Understand. I did NOT want to
sing those lyrics and I was FORCED
to.” When I asked Gottwald what was
up with Kesha (he is also an executive
producer of her MTV reality show, “My
Crazy Beautiful Life”), he shrugged
and said, “I haven’t heard from her in
a while.”
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