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The latest dager has been flung in the ongoing battle between Kesha and Dr Luke.
For more than a year, the 29-year-old has been fighting to break ties with the producer, who she says sexually assaulted her, drugged her, and enabled her eating disorder – which Dr. Luke has denied.
Now, emails reportedly released in new court papers seem to support Kesha’s claims, featuring him body-shaming her.
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In early court papers, Kesha said that Dr. Luke had called her a ‘fat fucking refrigerator.’ The emails her team has released, according to the New York Post’s Page Six, show exchanges between Dr. Luke and Kesha’s manager, Monica Cornia, that include similar comments.
An email reportedly sent from Dr. Luke in 2012 reads: “We were having a discussion on how [Kesha] can be more disciplined with her diet. there have been many times we have all witnessed her breaking her diet plan. this perticular [sic] time — it happened to be diet coke and turkey while on an all juice fast.”
Cornia noted that Kesha is ‘a human and not a machine,’ and Dr. Luke responded, ‘if she were a machine that would be way cool and we could do whatever we want.’
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In an earlier email, Dr. Luke allegedly claimed that ‘A[-]list songwriters and producers are reluctant to give Kesha their songs because of her weight.’
The emails also reportedly show evidence of a conflict over the lyrics to Kesha’s hit Crazy Kids.. When Kesha tried to remove a reference to drinking in a club, Dr. Luke allegedly said: “I don’t give a shit what you want.”
Kesha has been open over the years after her struggle with an eating disorder. After being sent to rehab in 2014, she said in an interview that she was in a ‘dark place,’ often not eating until she nearly fainted.
She told Vogue: “The worse it got, the more positive feedback I was getting. Inside I was really unhappy, but outside, people were like, ‘Wow, you look great.'”
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But Dr. Luke’s lawyer, Christine Lepera, has responded to the full Page Six report by accusing Kesha and her team of ‘misleading’ the public by ‘refusing to disclose the larger record of evidence showing the bad faith of [Kesha] and her representatives.’
The statement from Lepera continued:
It also shows the tremendous support that Dr. Luke provided Kesha regarding artistic and personal issues, including Kesha’s own concerns over her weight.
Rather than agree to a thorough disclosure, Kesha and her representatives improperly publicized, without Court permission, three out-of-context emails which do not present the full picture regarding the events they concern. For example, these emails do not show that the lyrics of Crazy Kids were, in fact, rewritten at Kesha’s request. Any claim by Kesha to the contrary is deceiving the public-just like her other meritless claims of wrongdoing by Dr. Luke.
Dr. Luke looks forward to full vindication in Court.
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Kesha’s legal team reportedly shared the emails in attempt to get a judge to reconsider last year’s verdict which denied her request to break her contract with Sony.
According to new court documents, the singer now wants to move on and ‘be free from her abuser and rebuild her physical, emotional, and mental health.’