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"John Rich has responded to fellow country singer Chely Wright&amp;#039;s allegation that his anti-gay comment sent her into a &amp;quot;meltdown&amp;quot;. According to Entertainment Weekly, the Big &amp;amp; Rich singer had said to Wright &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;re not gay are you?&amp;quot; to which the now-out songstress responded: &amp;quot;No John, I&amp;#039;m not.&amp;quot; Rich allegedly shot back, &amp;quot;Good, I&amp;#039;m glad.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;That began a spiral for me. I had a meltdown shortly after that,&amp;quot; Wright insisted. Rich responded to the charge with the following: &amp;quot;I would never pass judgment on any friend of mine. I feel awful that, at this time in Chely\u00E2\u20AC\u2122s life, my decade-old comment - &amp;#039;Good, thank God&amp;#039; - was taken the wrong way. I was clumsily trying to express my relief that even a country boy like me had a one-in-a-million chance of having a beer with a woman as talented and attractive as Chely.&amp;quot; Meanwhile, Wright still has doubts about her former friend. &amp;quot;I think he sees what it feels like to take on the gays, and he didn&amp;#039;t like it,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;And I think he may not want to take this on. So he may say, &amp;quot;Um, I love Chely. I can love the sinner, hate the sin.&amp;#039; He may say that. I don&amp;#039;t have to believe it.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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