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As we all know, celebs are people just like us, who have their fair share of hardships in life, but this one is a shocker! Patti Labelle has said that a very well-known, iconic soul singer attempted to rape her back in the 60’s. See which singer she’s referring to and get the details of what she said it all went down…

According to Patti, it was Jackie Wilson who attempted to rape her backstage at a theater. Here’s her account of what happened that day via michronicleonline.com:

[Patti Labelle] has had her share of downs, one of which involves being the victim of an attempted rape by another of the greatest singers and performers of all time, the iconic Jackie Wilson.

It happened, LaBelle alleges, in the early 1960s. At the time she was with the group Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles. The scene was backstage at a theater and LaBelle happened to be alone. Someone, she says, came up behind her.

“It was Jackie Wilson,” she recalled. “He was kissing my neck and I could smell the liquor on his breath. As I struggled to free myself, Jackie’s accomplice started dragging me in backwards. I was kicking with all my might, but I was no match for him.”

Next thing she knew, she was locked in a room.

“Jackie started touching. I started screaming, but no one could hear me. I didn’t have a knife, but I had my voice. I started screaming even louder, at the top of my lungs, and I can scream every bit as loud as I can sing.”

She continued,

“It worked. Suddenly they backed off. They let me go. I ran as fast as I could in the direction of the lights.”

Gladys Knight didn’t deny the accuracy of Patti LaBelle’s story, but remembers Jackie Wilson as a perfect gentleman who always went out of his way to help Gladys Knight & the Pips in the group’s early days.

“One man, two remembrances.”

 

Geesh, this is deep! It’s extremely hard to hear stories like this about legends whom we have great respect for from an artistic standpoint, but it’s also a reminder that again, legends are people just like us some of them flawed and some of them not so flawed. Are you surprised by this ILOSM family?

Source: I Love Old School Music