Cee-Lo Green: 'It isn't rape if the victim is unconscious'

Cee-Lo Green has left Twitter and the reason behind it is both odd and confusing.

The Forget You singer and former judge on The Voice USA, pleaded no contest on Friday to charges that he slipped a woman ecstasy without her consent back in 2012.

Prosecutors rejected a rape charge against Green – real name Thomas DeCarlo Callaway – when he was charged with the drug felony in October the following year, with the woman claiming that she had no memory of what happened between eating with Green at a restaurant and waking up naked in his bed.

The rape claim was thrown out and the 40-year-old singer was consequently sentenced to three years of formal probation and 45 days of community service.

Seeming to want to get something of his chest, he took to his Twitter account where he proceeded to respond to tweets by people commenting on his case.

‘People who have really been raped REMEMBER!!!,’ he told one person.

Performing on stage (Picture: Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images)

‘If someone is passed out they’re not even WITH you consciously! so WITH Implies consent’.

‘When someone brakes on a home there is broken glass where is your plausible proof that anyone was raped,’

Later backtracking, he issued an apology on the micro-blogging site, tweeting: ‘I sincerely apologize for my comments being taken so far out of context … I’d never condone the harm of any women.’

He later deleted his Twitter account, but screengrabs were obtained and reported by Buzzfeed.

Metro have attempted to contact a representative for Cee-Lo Green and are awaiting comment.