Apparently Robin Thicke has some blured memories of 2013.
Newly released deposition video from the “Blurred Lines” lawsuit shows Thicke repeatedly confirm he wasn’t sober in any of his 2013 interviews, including an appearance with Oprah.
“With all due respect, I was high and drunk every time I did an interview last year,” Thicke, 38, says at one point in the deposition video, which was unsealed by a federal judge in L.A., according to KABC.
(He made similar comments in previously obtained deposition transcripts.)
Robin Thicke drunk and high during interviews in 2013
In the deposition video, the 38-year-old singer also says he is not an honest person.
The interview was recorded on April 23, 2014, according to a time stamp.
When asked if he was drunk and high in a specific media appearance, Thicke says, “I didn’t do a single interview last year without being high on both.”
He says in the video that he only began citing Marvin Gaye when discussing “Blurred Lines” because other people did.
“I tell whatever I want to say to help sell records,” he says at another point in the video.
Thicke has also said he was drunk and high while in the studio recording “Blurred Lines,” according to deposition transcripts.
Thicke and Pharrell Williams, his “Blurred Lines” co-writer, were deposed as part of a lawsuit brought against them by Marvin Gaye’s family. The relatives claimed that “Blurred Lines” copied from Gaye’s 1977 song “Got to Give It Up.”
(Williams’ deposition video was also unsealed.)
In March 2015, they were found guilty of copyright infringement and ordered to pay and estimated $7.3 million.
“This [the deposition video] is old news. The songs are still different and we look forward to complete vindication on appeal,” Howard E. King, attorney for Thicke and Williams, 42, said in a statement to KABC.
Thicke’s reps didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment from dBTechno.
I guess he’s still not sober because he was on “Watch what happens live with Andy Cohen” on Bravo last week and they all did a shot of vodka. I thought he admitted that he had a problem and was trying to get sober but I guess not.
I dunno but I’d wanna be high too if I was appearing on Oprah and having to face her latest incarnation as Diana Ross with her latest hairdo. First she wanted to be Mary Tyler Moore, then it was Tina Turner, now it’s Diana Ross….and that’s all we know about. Who else has she been hiding under her ample hips?