People Are Convinced That The Allegations Are True After The 'Empire' Star Lost His Cool When Pressed About Claims That He Solicited Sex From Teen Transgender Prostitutes.
Malik Yoba has received backlash for his reaction during an interview with The Root. The 52-year-old actor, who declared his love for trans women though insisting he's straight earlier this month, was upset when pressed about allegations that he solicited sex from underage transgender prostitutes.
A trans woman named Mariah Lopez Ebony previously dished on the actor's alleged "Pandora's box" in a Facebook post, claiming that he had sex with her when she was "just a teen." She wrote that "many of the Trans women he engaged in sexual exploration and exploitation with on 14th Street, Times Square and elsewhere, were minors. Including myself."
"What Malik paid me to do, as a 13 and 16 year old, wasn't love," she called out Malik. "His ignoring that I was clearly a child prostitute, wasn't love. Paying for cheap thrills and secret orgasms; begging for unsafe, unprotected sex from a runaway Trans teen, while enjoying stardom as a successful artist and business man ....isn't love."
During the interview, Malik denied that he ever knew Mariah. "I have no idea who she is," he said. Denying the allegations, he continued, "I am familiar with that pain, I'm familiar with that trauma. I'm familiar with people who are crying out for help. I'm familiar with the lack of regard for this population, which is, again, my point. So, when I heard it, for me, to hear something so heinous, right, number one, and to see someone post something with no proof of anything and to see the world embrace it, or a portion of the world embrace it, that toxicity, speaks exactly to the reason I do the work that I do."
When the interviewer continued to press Malik on the criticism that he fetishizes transwomen and does not truly care about the trans community, he got angry. "So you and I sat for four hours the other day and we decided how we were gonna approach this. We're done, bro, we're done. It's a set up, I don't like this," he said, before storming off the interview. He also yelled at the interviewer, "F**k you! What the f**k is wrong with you?! This is my f***ing life!"
People have since compared Malik's interview to R. Kelly's meltdown during an interview with Gayle King last March. Pointing out similarity in their reactions to the allegations leveled at them, many are even more convinced that the "Empire" star indeed did as what he's accused of.
"Malik Yoba deada** quoted and acted like R.Kelly in that interview. That n***a without a doubt, most certainly, unwavering DID THAT S**T!" one commented on Malik's interview. Another remarked, "the parallels between Malik Yoba's blow up & R. Kelly's are telling. Abusers react the same way when faced with their actions."
"This entire interview stinks and I can't help but liken it to the Toure and R.Kelly interview. It's so obvious this man uses Trans Women. You simply cannot say these things whilst having meaningful relationships with Trans Women," another alleged.
A fourth user reacted, "#MalikYoba took a page out of the 'R. Kelly book of self-defense' #yikes." Another person simply concluded, "These allegations are clearly true!"
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