During her tenure, Gayle spoke with world leaders like President Barack Obama And Michelle Obamaas well as her boyfriend Oprah Winfrey. But perhaps his most remarkable interview was that of R.Kelly in 2019 before being convicted of federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges. During their conversation, he became visibly upset while Gayle remained calm and simply repeated his name “Robert.”
“It escalated pretty quickly,” Gayle said. People in 2019. “It went from 0 to 200. When it gets to that moment, you don’t really feel it. I could tell he was getting a little angry, I could see it, but I didn’t expect it to go there.”
She added: “When he jumped out of the chair and punched and screamed and spat because he was angry, I just thought, ‘You can’t respond the same way to that.’ If you answer the same way, then we’ll both go off the rails.
