Reggie Watts Removed From Festivals Following Damning Rolling Stone Article

Last week, Rolling Stone published an extremely troubling bombshell exposé about the comedian and musician Reggie Watts. In that article, a number of loved ones came forward to suggest that Watts played a role in the suicide of his ex-girlfriend, 36-year-old Katherine Early McCollough. Some people who knew the couple claim that Watts encouraged McCollough to take a number of drugs, especially ketamine, which led McCollough to addiction, a manic episode, and ultimately death. Since the article's publication, some of Watts' bookings have been canceled, and the podcast Comedy Bang! Bang! has stopped using his theme song.The 54-year-old Reggie Watts has been an inescapable figure on the music festival landscape for well over a decade. His improvised beatbox riff has served as the Comedy Bang! Bang! theme music since 2011, and he starred on the TV version of the podcast from 2012 to 2016. Starting in 2015, Watts also spent eight years as the bandleader on James Corden's Late Late Show. Watts reportedly met McCollough in 2023 and broke up with her a few months after she suffered a drug-induced manic episode last summer. The Rolling Stone piece includes accounts from some of Watts' other ...