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 The cancellation of Green's Oct. 4 performance at BayFest in
Mobile was announced on Monday, and comes on the heels of
similar cancellations by the Freedom LIVE concert in Washington,
D.C., and the Gretna Heritage Festival in Louisiana.
In addition, several media outlets reported last week that TBS
has canceled Green's reality TV show, "The Good Life," after one
season.
Green, whose real name is Thomas DeCarlo Callaway, was sentenced
last month to three years of probation and ordered to complete
52 Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous meetings as well
as 360 hours of community service.
According to prosecutors from the Los Angeles County district
attorney's office, Green gave the banned drug ecstasy to a
33-year-old woman at a Los Angeles restaurant. Green pleaded no
contest to a felony charge of giving ecstasy to the woman last
month.
The woman initially accused Green of sexual assault, but
prosecutors said there was insufficient evidence to charge him
with rape of an intoxicated person. His attorney has said Green
had consensual sex with the woman.
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After his sentencing, Green defended himself on Twitter, writing
that "if someone is passed out they're not even WITH you
consciously, so WITH Implies consent."
Green subsequently deleted that and other contentious postings,
later apologizing for them.
"Those comments were idiotic, untrue and not what I believe," he
said, also on Twitter.
Earlier this year, the Georgia native said he was stepping down from
his role as a judge on NBC's popular singing competition "The
Voice."
Green is known for his 2010 hit song "Forget You" and as half of
soul music duo Gnarls Barkley, which was behind the 2006 smash hit
"Crazy."
(Reporting by Jonathan Kaminsky in New Orleans; Editing by Jonathan
Allen and Mohammad Zargham)
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