R. Kelly’s daughter Buku Abi, additionally identified as Joann Kelly, has alleged the imprisoned singer sexually abused her as a youngster in a new documentary for the TVEI Streaming Community.
“He was my everything. For a long time, I didn’t even want to believe that it happened. I didn’t know that even if he was a bad person that he would do something to me,” a tearful Buku Abi says in R. Kelly‘s Karma: A Daughter’s Journey. “I was too scared to tell anybody. I was too scared to tell my mom.”
Her untold story is revealed as a part of the two-part documentary that features emotional interviews with Abi’s siblings, Jaah and Robert Kelly Jr. and their mom, Drea Kelly. “What he did to me, he did to me. But you didn’t have to do it to my damn kids,” his ex-wife says.
“I really feel like that one millisecond completely just changed my whole life and changed who I was as a person and changed the sparkle I had and the light I used to carry. After I told my mom, I didn’t go over there anymore,” Abi says, by way of Individuals. “My brother [Robert] and sister [Jaah], we didn’t go over there anymore. And even up until now, I struggle with it a lot.”
“Mr. Kelly vehemently denies these allegations,” she mentioned in a assertion to Individuals. “His ex-wife made the same allegation years ago, and it was investigated by the Illinois Department of Children & Family Services and was unfounded…. And the ‘filmmakers,’ whoever they are, did not reach out to Mr. Kelly or his team to even allow him to deny these hurtful claims.”
In 2021, Kelly, who had turn out to be an R&B famous person identified for his anthem “I Believe I Can Fly,” was convicted after a intercourse trafficking trial that adopted a long time of avoiding felony duty for quite a few allegations of misconduct with younger ladies and kids.
Public condemnation and his trial didn’t come till a broadly watched docuseries, Surviving R. Kelly, helped make his case a signifier of the #MeToo period and gave voice to accusers who puzzled if their tales have been beforehand ignored as a result of they have been Black ladies.
The primary two episodes of R. Kelly’s Karma: A Daughter’s Journey are streaming on the TVEI Streaming Community.
