Gospel singer and preacher Kim Burrell sitting with Tamron Hall to address his history of controversial remarks this week. Responding to comments made from a pulpit in 2016 where she spoke of the “evil gay spirit,” Burrell said she had a famous, Oscar-winning supporter. Jamie Foxx.
“No one has ever asked me what offends me and why it should matter. A reaction from a community that says, ‘We’re extreme on love,’ didn’t respond with love , thinking that I was deliberate to hurt. The truth hurts. I was there preaching what I know to be the truth,” Burrell told Hall, according to Entertainment Weekly.
The singer was to appear on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, but his appearance was canceled after comments.
“I have to stand on the truth no matter what. I can be criticized for it, I can be supposedly ‘cancelled’ for it, no one reported that my friend Jamie Foxx felt the need to call Ellen and say, “You got it wrong. She’s been more to our community than the world is ready to see, and we don’t think the extreme of canceling her from a show was an appropriate response to what she’s done to our community. . .”
Burrell also claimed that after the sermon her car was shot at and she had helicopters flown over her house, although the report notes that she never filed a complaint with the police.
The Grammy-nominated singer also told Hall that she was disappointed by the criticism of her remarks by Yolande Adams. “I was disappointed, because we all shared the same stage, back rooms and green rooms, and some of their public presentations in the conversation are somewhat opposite to what they are behind the stage,” said continued Burrell. “I would have much preferred, especially when it comes to gospel, Yolanda Adams, we’re both from Houston, Texas, to pick up the cell phone and say, ‘Hey, I’ve got a career to save, and I can’t agree with your position right now, I have to say something different to my audience. I would have preferred that.”
Burrell recently went viral this summer for comments from the pulpit at Kingdom City Church where she appeared to call parishioners “broken” and “ugly” and advocated against COVID vaccines. She later apologized for the comments.
