Milli Vanilli’s surviving member Fab Morvan is speaking out against the media he feels sensationalized the group’s lip sync scandal that eventually led to his groupmate’s death.

It’s been over 30 years since Milli Vanilli’s infamous 1989 lip sync scandal that resulted in their Grammy getting revoked and the group becoming a laughingstock of the music industry. It was back in 1989 when Milli Vanilli was performing live and their track skipped revealing the European duo was serving as models over vocals that weren’t their own.

Their record executive Frank Farian went on to admit that the group was lip syncing and not singing the actual lyrics of their hit songs. Following the confession, the Recording Academy revoked their 1990 Grammy for Best New Artist. 

Milli Vanilli rose to fame following their 1988 debut album “Girl You Know It’s True” which released three number one hits in the U.S. and garnered a Grammy win for Best New Artist. But the dream came crashing down following the lip sync scandal. Morvan would go on to continue a music career on his own and show off his natural singing skills while Rob Pilatus died at the age of 32 from an apparent drug overdose. 

Now amid the release of a “Milli Vanilli” documentary on Paramount+, the group’s surviving member is speaking out against the media’s treatment of the then-young boyband and partially blaming them for his late friend’s death.

 “When I look back I realize when a scandal occurs it gets people to watch TV, it’s a business,” he shared on The Project. “Journalists are meant to be impartial and investigate but that was not done.”

“These two kids were being bullied and one of them died of a broken heart as a result,” he continued. “But the other one managed to go through with his passion.”

Morvan, 57, now realizes how young and inexperienced he and Pilatus were when they signed their recording contract without legal representation.

“I didn’t know what a recording contract looked like so I signed it without an attorney,” he said.

“We each got paid and when it came time for us not to sing we said we are not doing this. But we were told money is not free so we had to pay back what we were paid by working.”

The “Milli Vanilli” documentary premiered on Paramount+ on Tuesday, October 24.

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