14 DAY TRIAL // It's a case of failing to keep your mouth shut and getting into more trouble than you can handle. Singer Cee Lo Green has seen not only severe public outrage after he tweeted a series of controversial statements on social media about rape victims, but he's also seen the demise of his unscripted series, since network TBS chose to cancel it.
The news comes via The Hollywood Reporter, which confirms that Green's series was taken off the air as the former “The Voice” coach chose to reveal his opinions on the nature of rape over the weekend on Twitter.
Since the scandal has first emerged, Cee Lo has deleted the tweets, but he's still under fire for his point of view. One tweet read, “If someone is passed out, they're not even WITH you consciously! (sic).” Then he went on to make an unfortunate comparison, “So WITH implies consent… when someone brakes on a home there is broken glass where is your plausible proof anyone was raped… women who have really been raped REMEMBER!!!”
Then he moved on to his own case in which he was accused of raping someone, “So if I TRIED but did NOT succeed but the person said I DID then what really happened?”
It doesn't take a social media expert to realize that fans soon queued up to blast the singer for his claims and insensibility. Things soon got serious, and a women's group called UltraViolet even went so far as to set up an online petition against Green.
The petition demanded that TBS and its umbrella company, Time Warner, cancel Cee Lo's reality series. It seems that the network paid attention to the over 30,000 signatures the petition managed to get, because they have since decided to pull the plug on “The Good Life.”
The show premiered in June and had already completed its six-episode pilot run, featuring the singer and presenting his daily schedule of producing, recording and performing. It regularly managed to achieve over half a million viewers per episode in the 18-49 demographic.
Green pleaded no contest to a felony charge for providing ecstasy to a woman back in August, and he also faced molestation charges for an incident that happened in 2012.
Sources from the network maintain that the decision to pull the plug on “The Good Life” was based solely on the poor ratings performance it managed to achieve while it was on air.