Kesha's Mom about Dr. Luke-"He almost destroyed us"

[yASSsss 35,510]

Some highlights from the interview-

-"Dr. Luke has been tyrannical and abusive since our relationship began," Kesha, who's ­represented by the high-profile attorney Mark Geragos, stated in an affidavit from September 2015. "I was too young and naive to even ­understand what he was doing to me."

-"She was a prisoner," Kesha's mother, Rosemary Patricia "Pebe" Sebert, says today. During ­several hours-long phone calls from Nashville, where she lives, Pebe, 60, a successful ­songwriter -- she can be seen sitting next to a sobbing Kesha in the courtroom photo that ricocheted across news sites and social media in February -- spoke exclusively to Billboard about Kesha's 10-plus-year relationship with the Grammy-nominated producer. (Kesha declined to speak with Billboard.) "It was like someone who beats you every day and hangs you from a chain and then comes in and gives you a piece of bread. Luke would say, 'You look nice today,' " says Pebe, "and send her into ­hysterics of happiness because she was programmed to expect nothing but abuse."

-On Feb. 22, Taylor Swift donated $250,000 to help Kesha with her legal and financial troubles. "It was really random," says Pebe, who received an email from Swift's publicist about the offer. "Kesha was like, 'Are you sure it's not some scammer?' And then she said, 'I would be honored if she wants to do that.' " (Swift and Kesha later spoke directly.)

-On Oct. 5, 2005, Kesha and Dr. Luke attended a birthday party for Nicky Hilton at her sister Paris' Hollywood Hills mansion. Kesha was drinking. According to Kesha's 2014 lawsuit, Luke raped her after giving her what he called "sober pills": GHB, a drug commonly used in sexual assaults. This, the suit alleges, is what allowed him to "bring [her] back to his hotel room alone and rape her while she was unconscious." The ­documents don't specify a date, but according to Pebe, Luke drugged her at the Hiltons' party and took her back to his hotel that night. An ­eyewitness at the party confirms to Billboard that both Luke and Kesha were there (although the source says, "I didn't see anything weird" between the two of them).By midafternoon the day after the party, Pebe had grown concerned after ­calling Kesha multiple times and getting no response. (On an average day, Pebe says, the two spoke by phone every six to eight hours.) Finally, her mother maintains, Kesha returned her call, saying she had woken up naked in what she believed was Dr. Luke's hotel room. "Mom, I don't know where I am. I think we had sex. I'm sore and sick. I don't know where my clothes are. I think I need to go to the hospital," she said. Then Kesha's phone battery died. Pebe kept calling her daughter until Kesha called back from the hotel's landline.

-A former Jive executive says Luke "has a massive ego" and is known to be ­"difficult" to work with. One top music manager who has known Luke for more than 20 years, and whose roster includes best-selling pop and rock acts who have worked with him, says, "Luke is a terrible person. He's very talented, obviously -- he's a guitar player interested in pop beats -- but he's ­diabolical. No one likes dealing with the guy. He'll do anything to f-- over everyone. This thing with Kesha is a perfect example. He could have let her out of the deal a year ago -- her career was already on its downside -- but he's such an asshole he just wouldn't do it." Veteran publicist Elizabeth Freund has known Luke (who is not her client) since he was 11 years old, when she was his sister's camp counselor. "There's not one speck of doubt in my mind that he didn't commit these allegations," she says of Luke, who has a girlfriend and two young children. "He's a loving father and an incredibly generous family member. I've seen really good ­relationships with the people he has worked with for years. He's strong, kind and a loving and utterly good man."

-On March 11, organizers plan to deliver the four petitions against Sony and stage a protest outside its New York headquarters.

-The manager and 20-year acquaintance of Luke's believes his career is virtually ­finished: "He's f--ed. He's done. He has rarely had success working with guys, and virtually every big female star in the world has come out against him. Why would anyone work with him now?"But another high-ranking music ­executive says, "There will always be someone who'll want his magic. A new artist who's hungry enough -- you can bet they'll be calling him. He's the holy grail for a certain type of ­artist." Or, as another industry insider says, "A hit fixes all."

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[SlaeUrAnus 16,082]

Omg  What a disgusting human being. 

It must have been so disturbing to wake up wondering if you have been raped or not! Poor girl! 

[kvnrp 48,353]

Luke could save himself a lot of trouble and probably money if he just lets Kesha go.

I think everyone (including him) should know by now that the two won't ever work again together.

9 minutes ago, yASSsss said:

One top music manager who has known Luke for more than 20 years, and whose roster includes best-selling pop and rock acts who have worked with him, says, "Luke is a terrible person. He's very talented, obviously -- he's a guitar player interested in pop beats -- but he's ­diabolical. No one likes dealing with the guy. He'll do anything to f-- over everyone. This thing with Kesha is a perfect example. He could have let her out of the deal a year ago -- her career was already on its downside -- but he's such an asshole he just wouldn't do it."

What can he possibly still get from her? omg

 

[Peroxide 9,202]

This is terrifying  

[Yuko 1,010]

He could be a loving family man but that's not proof of what he is outside of his home. Mental instability can be confined to a certain environment with certain kinds of people. Assuming he's sweet everywhere because he's sweet with the most important people in his life is not right imo.

[Morphine Prince 107,698]

SICK BASTARD  

[Sunday 2,186]

What puzzled me is that how can he STILL be staying with Kesha knowing her career's peak isnt at it's best ?  What a terrible person he is !

[JusKeepBreathin 19,311]

He is making her life miserable just because he can. That's one sadistic mother F^cker.

[Supersonic 49,376]

53 minutes ago, kvnrp said:

Luke could save himself a lot of trouble and probably money if he just lets Kesha go.

I think everyone (including him) should know by now that the two won't ever work again together.

What can he possibly still get from her? omg

Nothing. Wanting to keep Kesha in her contract even though it would be somewhat unprofitable for himself is only a testament to how OBSESSED he is with controlling Kesha and that his intentions are nothing but the one's of an abuser desperately wanting to show their victims that he is able to crush their dreams and lives once the turn against them. He'd rather lose his own money than see Kesha happy.

[President Trump 3,508]

O boy 

[lego 44,165]

In late August 2012, Luke and Kesha set to work on her second album, Warrior, in Luke's Malibu studio. Pebe recalls that Luke would comment about how Kesha, who has spoken openly about her battles with bulimia, wasn't fit enough. "He ­ridiculed my body and my weight to the point where I almost killed myself," Kesha says in the 2015 affidavit. "He encouraged me to not eat -- even when I was eight days with no solid food and skipping meals to work out two times a day."

On one song, according to Pebe, Luke wanted her to sing a lyric that included the phrase "some fat bitches in the bar." "She would never say something like that -- not in a million years," says a collaborator of Kesha's who heard about the incident from her. "There's no way Kesha would ever want to degrade a certain body type in a song."

Kesha's 2014 lawsuit states that Luke once "physically backed Kesha into a corner, where she was curled up in a ball, crying and fearing for her life." Pebe says that Luke did this, shaking his fist and screaming at her, after Kesha refused to sing the "fat bitches" lyric. Kesha, ­according to the 2014 lawsuit, bolted out of the studio and ran barefoot down the Pacific Coast Highway, crying. She climbed up nearby mountains and hid so he wouldn't be able to find her, then, says Pebe, called her manager to come pick her up.

Pebe says that Luke constantly criticized Kesha, saying things like, "Katy Perry is so much better than you. You're not a good writer," after she worked long hours in the studio. (Kesha and Perry were once close friends, "before they both got famous," says Pebe.) 

According to Kesha's 2014 lawsuit, Dr. Luke once called her a "fat f--ing ­refrigerator." Pebe says he did this during the shoot for the music video "Die Young," which came out in November 2012. Luke, says Pebe, made the comment to the ­video's director after Kesha had stripped her clothes and laid down in a bra and ­underwear for a scene. Kesha, says Pebe, would cry and tell her mother, "I would rather be dead then spend one more day with him."

Kesha Posts 'Grateful' Statement: 'This Issue Is Bigger Than Just About Me'

One night in 2012, Pebe remembers that Dr. Luke had Kesha and Pebe come to his studio and proceeded to scream at them for three hours. Kesha asked him if she could leave to go to the bathroom. She fled to her car and texted her mother: "Mom, I'm not kidding. We are going to Mexico. F-- the music business."

 

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This is all so sickening and we have people on this forum who support and defend him and make fun of Kesha. 

[lego 44,165]

I didn't know they were once close friends, that makes it even more weird why Katy is just silent.

[StrawberryBlond 15,043]

7 hours ago, yASSsss said:

The manager and 20-year acquaintance of Luke's believes his career is virtually ­finished: "He's f--ed. He's done. He has rarely had success working with guys, and virtually every big female star in the world has come out against him. Why would anyone work with him now?"

That's a good point - looking through Luke's production history, he rarely writes for men and when he does, it rarely becomes a hit. He seems to prefer writing for women - Kesha, Katy and Britney especially. Lately, he's been focused a lot on up and coming acts (G.R.L, Fifth Harmony, Becky G, Elliphant) but not doing much for big names anymore. His focus on writing for/with women (usually young women too) certainly points towards someone who entered this business for a certain reason...I notice that out of everyone on his label, Kesha's really the only one who's actually made an album. Juicy J's the only other artist who's released any albums (I don't know how long he's been signed to Kemosabe but his last was in 2013). Lil Bibby and Elliphant are supposedly releasing this month but that could change. Everyone else is yet to release an album, even though some have been on his label for a while. I know none of them are exactly hitmakers, but how long do you keep someone on a label without releasing any material? I think this shows that Luke really does like to sign artists and never let them go or never let them progress, so he owns them. Including former acts, he's signed 12 people - 7 of them were female, most of them young. Makes you wonder.

48 minutes ago, VampireHeart said:

On one song, according to Pebe, Luke wanted her to sing a lyric that included the phrase "some fat bitches in the bar." "She would never say something like that -- not in a million years," says a collaborator of Kesha's who heard about the incident from her. "There's no way Kesha would ever want to degrade a certain body type in a song."

Kesha's 2014 lawsuit states that Luke once "physically backed Kesha into a corner, where she was curled up in a ball, crying and fearing for her life." Pebe says that Luke did this, shaking his fist and screaming at her, after Kesha refused to sing the "fat bitches" lyric. Kesha, ­according to the 2014 lawsuit, bolted out of the studio and ran barefoot down the Pacific Coast Highway, crying. She climbed up nearby mountains and hid so he wouldn't be able to find her, then, says Pebe, called her manager to come pick her up.

Pebe says that Luke constantly criticized Kesha, saying things like, "Katy Perry is so much better than you. You're not a good writer," after she worked long hours in the studio. (Kesha and Perry were once close friends, "before they both got famous," says Pebe.)

Wow, that's really sad. Sounds like he gets off on this stuff, the sick creep. I could totally imagine him telling her that she wasn't as good as other singers who were getting more hits than her. In fact, I've always imagined this is perhaps what some of these big producers are like. This makes it even more strange that Katy has stayed silent on this whole thing. Why did they stop being friends? Why won't she speak up for her? The thing about the party at Paris's house, I remember now that Kesha said that's what her song, Party At A Rich Dude's House is about. I listened back to it and with lyrics like "I wake up in the front yard" and "I threw up in the closet" and "the sun is coming up and oh my god, I think I'm still drunk"...I'm starting to feel a bit sick. Oddly enough, Luke didn't play a part in making this one with her, which actually confuses me. Why would she want to sing about a horrible situation in such a happy way? My big question is why Pebe waited so long to speak up about this. If some of this happened as far back as 2005, why wait until now? I understand why the victim would want to stay silent, but the mother? How could Pebe go on writing songs with her daughter and allow her to keep working with Luke after something like that? If I knew my daughter had been raped, I'd be onto the police so fast, I wouldn't wait 10 years to say something.

[LoveandMagic 1,731]

If any of this is true...whoa. 

Unfortunately, it's all hearsay, though we have heard from other artists though that this guy is a creep and asshole, so I'm not finding it too hard to believe what is being said here. I'm really wanting to know if Kesha went to the hospital and got checked up on.