Elton John issues a defiant statement after ‘Rocketman’ is censored in Russia

The Russian release of Rocketman is missing a number of scenes, including those that depict drug use and gay relations between two men. Elton John, the subject of the critically hailed new biopic, is not pleased.

John issued a strongly worded statement via Twitter on Friday evening in response to reports from an early screening in Moscow. The statement specifically singles out the “local distributor” in Russia, calling the changes “a sad reflection of the divided world we still live in and how it can be so cruelly unaccepting of the love between two people.”

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