The world is small…and the music industry is even smaller.

Usher, the R&B icon locked into a STI-fuelled scandal this year, is undoubtedly discovering that this week after Angie Stone has stepped forward to reveal that she has ties to the drama.

How? Why?

Angie’s big reveal below…

Stone recently inked a deal with ‘Worldstar Hip Hop’ to create her very own show named ‘Shift’.

What this has to do with Usher and the potentially baseless claims that he has been infecting women with herpes? A great deal, as Angie made it her mission to get to the bottom of the story and find out how it made its way to the masses.

Here’s what she discovered.

The story goes like this; it came to me that the young lady’s phone was in the possession of her ex-publicist at the time when there was a relationship between the two of them.

She was downloading something to a computer, the ex-publicist ratchetly took everything off her computer, as a result of what ended up on her phone, the ex-publicist started selling information that she had stolen off of this young woman’s phone. They had text messages going back and forth between her and Usher [about herpes]. This is a young lady with a family that wants a future for her life. This stuff was taken from her and exploited. As a result, she had to come back and comebuttal [sic] to cut off the head of the snake. The publicist going to jail, they ain’t got no money, that’s why you selling information.

Usher is yet to respond to Angie’s “discovery” and is unlikely to as he claims that there is nothing to discover as he doesn’t have herpes.

What a tangled web we weave, eh?

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