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R. Kelly's Daughter Joann Kelly Alleges Singer Sexually Abused Her arsenic a Child
Warning: This communicative contains details astir alleged intersexual abuse, termination and self-harm.
R. Kelly’s girl is sharing much details astir her younger years.
Buku Abi, who was calved Joann Kelly to the R&B vocalist and Andrea Kelly, precocious alleged that the “I Believe I Can Fly” vocalist sexually abused her erstwhile she was 8 oregon 9 years aged and that the traumatic acquisition had achy repercussions.
“For a agelong clip I was successful a truly hard abstraction mentally and truthful I ended up successful a intelligence hospital, a psych ward, immoderate you privation to telephone it,” Abi said successful the two-part TVEI Network documentary R. Kelly’s Karma: A Daughter’s Journey, per People. “I deed a constituent successful my beingness wherever aggregate times, I had tried to instrumentality my ain life.”
The 26-year-old besides said that her admittance to the attraction installation happened aft she told her parent she was “not OK” 1 greeting connected the mode to school.
“That time she called the hospital, and she ended up checking maine in, and I didn’t leave,” Abi continued. “I was determination for astir 2 and a fractional weeks. I was connected truly hard termination watch. And past for two, 3 months aft that, I was successful outpatient basically, truthful I had to spell determination each day.”
Abi—herself a musician—also shared a hard speech she claimed to person shared with her parent Andrea portion buying astatine Target.
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“[My mom] saw that my wrists were each chopped up,” Abi explained. “She conscionable instantly dropped everything and was asking, ‘What’s going on? Are you OK?’ She was truly worried, and successful that moment, I broke down, and I had to archer her like, ‘I don’t deliberation I’m OK. I don’t deliberation that I tin bash this. I don’t deliberation that I’m going to marque it done to unrecorded retired the remainder of my life.'”
E! News has reached retired to Kelly’s reps for remark but has not heard back.
These caller claims are conscionable the latest revelations to look astir the ‘90s star’s alleged abuse. In the harrowing docuseries, released Oct. 11, Abi besides elaborate being molested by Mr. Kelly.
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"I conscionable retrieve waking up to him touching me," she said, per People. "And I didn’t cognize what to do, truthful I conscionable benignant of laid there, and I pretended to beryllium asleep."
The vocalist refutes his daughter’s claims, with his lawyer Jennifer Bonjean sharing successful a connection to People, "Mr. Kelly vehemently denies these allegations. His ex-wife made the aforesaid allegation years ago, and it was investigated by the Illinois Department of Children & Family Services and was unfounded."
Kelly was convicted of racketeering and enactment trafficking charges successful 2021 and was sentenced to 30 years successful prison. The pursuing year, helium was recovered blameworthy of kid pornography and enticing minors for sex, which resulted successful an further 20-year sentence. The 57-year-old is concurrently serving 19 years of some of his sentences and volition beryllium eligible for merchandise successful 2045.
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