Get the latest gossip

Usher Addresses Cozy Super Bowl Hug With Alicia Keys: ’No Disrespect’

In a new interview, Usher insisted that he didn’t intend for his performance with Alicia to look ‘perverted’ or be ‘viewed as bad.’

Although many presumed that their embrace was intimate, the “OMG” artist, 45, insisted that there was “no disrespect” toward Alicia, 43, or her husband, Swizz Beatz. Usher was asked about it during her recent interview with Charlemagne tha God on the radio show, The Breakfast Club. “Hoping Swizz Beatz backstage … Usher with that don’t leave your girl around me energy got him on demon time,” one X user tweeted shortly after the halftime show aired.

Get the Android app