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‘Hitler was a wonderful painter’: Erykah Badu, and other career capsizing interviews

From brostep pop stars to Hollywood veterans, we explore some of the problematic interviews that caused a furore
ATLANTA, GA - FEBRUARY 11: Erykah Badu attends BET's Social Awards 2018 at Tyler Perry Studio on February 11, 2018 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images for BET)

Erykah Badu, Vulture, 2018

Oh dear Lord. She starts with: “I see good in everybody. I saw something good in Hitler,”then proceeds to qualify the statement with the entirely baseless assertions that “he was a wonderful painter” and “he had a terrible childhood”, neither of which is true. She then ponders what her own daughter might have turned into had she grown up in

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