{"id":5885,"date":"2016-04-06T11:46:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T15:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/?p=5885"},"modified":"2016-04-06T12:06:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T16:06:18","slug":"kesha-says-she-was-offered-freedom-if-she-revoked-rape-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/kesha-says-she-was-offered-freedom-if-she-revoked-rape-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Kesha says she was offered \u2018freedom\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By MELISSA CABAL<\/p>\n<p>In an Instagram post shared Sunday, singer Kesha says she was proposed a deal to gain her \u201cfreedom\u201d only if she issued a public apology and retracted her accusations of sexual assault against Dr. Luke.<\/p>\n<p>The pop singer first sued her former producer back in 2014 for battery and sexual assault and is seeking to cut off all contractual ties with him.<\/p>\n<p>In response, Dr. Luke filed a countersuit and called her allegations \u201cdefamatory.\u201d In his own words, he said he \u201cdidn\u2019t rape Kesha\u201d and \u201chad never had sex with her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the Instagram post she says, \u201cI got offered my freedom IF i were to lie. I would have to APOLOGIZE publicly and say that I never got raped.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTHIS IS WHAT HAPPENS behind closed doors. I will not take back the TRUTH. I would rather let the truth ruin my career than lie for a monster ever again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In February, a New York judge denied her bid for a preliminary injunction that would allow the singer to record music outside of her contract.<\/p>\n<p>The news of the judge\u2019s denial spread quickly which led the public and even celebrities like Demi Lovato and Taylor Swift to reach out to the singer in support.<\/p>\n<p>As of now, her legal battle continues as she refuses to release music for the label until the contract is broken off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By MELISSA CABAL In an Instagram post shared Sunday, singer Kesha says she was proposed a deal to gain her \u201cfreedom\u201d only if she issued a public apology and retracted her accusations of sexual assault against Dr. Luke. The pop &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/kesha-says-she-was-offered-freedom-if-she-revoked-rape-allegations\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[442],"tags":[5,6],"class_list":["post-5885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-melissa-cabral","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment-news"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5885"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5895,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5885\/revisions\/5895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}