Gaga lavished praise on Kelly back in 2013 after selecting him to appear on her Artpop single 'Do What U Want' at the suggestion of her producer.
That was five years after Kelly was acquitted in his child pornography trial that centered around a sex tape that allegedly showed him raping and then urinating on a 14-year-old girl.
There were also allegations from a number of other young woman at that time, but it did not stop Gaga and Kelly from staging provocative and highly sexualized performances of the song at the American Music Awards and on Saturday Night Live.
The two even shot a video with Terry Richardson, who had also been accused of sexually assaulting multiple young women at that time.
'I'm confused how @LadyGaga can be so vocal in her support of #MeToo yet remain silent about R. Kelly who by the time she collaborated with him was a well known pedophile and sexual predator,' said writer Tzynya L. Pinchback in a post over the weekend.
Gaga also showed her affinity for Kelly on Twitter, quoting their song in a 2013 tweet and the following year writing: '#ARTPOPMemories Me & the sensational R Kelly turning up the Oval Office, Doing What We Want, no matter what they say.'
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Azealia Banks then closed out by stating: 'Kesha’s womanhood is more important to Gaga than the womanhood of the girl being peed on. So she will boycott luke and use r.kelly.'
Surviving R Kelly's producer and driving force, dream hampton, spoke about the issue of race when it comes to sexual assault in an interview with The New York Times last week.
'We know black boys are perceived to be older than they are by police, and we absolutely do an equivalent thing to black girls,' explained hampton.
'We perceive them to be more sexual at an early age. We perceive them to be older. And that is rooted — there is no other way to say it, and it’s not hyperbole to say — it’s absolutely rooted in this country’s history of slavery, which has gone on longer than it hasn’t.'
It was also hampton who told the Detroit Free Press that Gaga refused to participate in the series, saying: 'We asked Lady Gaga. We asked Erykah Badu. We asked Celine Dion. We asked Jay-Z. We asked Dave Chappelle.'
All declined, with John Legend the lone male artist to participate in the series.
Legend tossed aside the praise that was directed his way for that move and said it was hampton and the brave victims who deserved the accolades for speaking out.
'No one cared because we were black girls,' said writer Mikki Kendall during the series, referring to both the media who did not fully cover the allegations and the members of the music industry who welcomes the singer back into the fold.