R.Kelly breaks down in tears, fights for life (photos)

R Kelly has finally broken his silence for the first time since his child sex abuse allegations.

Speaking to Gayle King on CBS This Morning, the R&B singer said it would be stupid to think he would have girls chained up after all he has gone through.

He said people are judging him based on his past and that’s sad, adding that he is fighting for his life, before busting into tears.

“People are going back to my past,” he said in the first clip released from the interview. “They’re going back to the past and they’re trying to add all of this stuff now to that—to make all of the stuff that’s going on now feel real to people.”

When King said his past he meant when he was acquitted on child pornography charges in 2008.

On the sexual abuse stories, Kelly also said breaking down in tears:

“I didn’t do this stuff. This is not me. I am fighting for my f life.”

When asked if he held women against their will, Kelly fired back.

“I don’t need to. Why would I? How stupid would it be for R. Kelly, with all I’ve been through in my way, way past to hold somebody—let alone four, five, six, 50 you said, how stupid would I be to do that? That’s stupid guys.”

He then looked directly into the camera and pleaded his case.

“Use your common sense. Forget the blogs. Forget how you feel about me. Hate me if you want to, love me if you want to. But just use your common sense. How stupid would it be for me with my crazy past and what I’ve been through. Oh, right now I just think I need to be a monster and hold girls against their will, chain ’em up in my basement and don’t let ’em eat and don’t let ’em out, unless they need some shoes down the street from they uncle. Stop it.”

With tears in his eyes, an emotional Kelly declared his innocence.

“Ya’ll quit playin’. Quit playin’. I didn’t do this stuff. This is not me. I’m fightin’ for my fu**in’ life.”

The singer surrendered to police on 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse on Feb. 22. The charges involve four women, three of whom were underage at the time of the alleged events. Kelly was released after spending the weekend in jail and posting $100,000 of his $1 million bail.