R. Kelly’s daughter claims that her father sexually abused her as a child.
In the new documentary Karma: A Daughter’s Journey, the singer’s daughter, Buku Abi (born Joanne Kelly), claimed that the abuse happened when she was either eight or nine years old. She claims that she woke up and the singer was touching her, while she pretended to be asleep.
“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,” Abi said. She then explained the fear that she lived with because of it. “I was too scared to tell anybody. I was too scared to tell my mom.”
Abi reported the abuse to her mom, Andrea, in 2009 when she was ten years old.
“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,” she revealed. “After I told my mom, I didn’t go over there anymore; my brother [Robert] and sister [Jaah], we didn’t go over there anymore. And even up until now I struggle with it a lot.”
In response to the accusation, Kelly’s attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, revealed to TMZ, “Mr. Kelly vehemently denies these allegations.”
“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,” she continued.
R. Kelly was sentenced to 20 years in prison on child pornography and enticement of minors for sex charges last February. He was already serving a 30-year sentence stemming from his racketeering and sex-trafficking conviction in 2021. He will be eligible for parole in 2045.
For more of Buku Abi’s account of dealing with her father’s actions and legacy, check out Kelly’s Karma: A Daughter’s Journey on the Tvei Network.
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