R. Kelly’s daughter Buku Abi says singer sexually abused her as a child

More than five Years after speaking up for R. Kelly’s survivors, the singer’s daughter, Buku Abi, claimed that she too was sexually abused by her father.

In the new documentation R. Kelly’s Karma: A Daughter’s Journey On TVEI Streaming Network, Abi claims that she was abused by the singer when she was eight or nine years old.

“He was my everything. “For a long time I didn’t even want to believe it happened,” says Abi in the first episode of the two-parter People. “I didn’t know he would hurt me even if he was a bad person.”

“I was too afraid to tell anyone,” she adds. “I was too afraid to tell my mother.”

In the documentary’s second episode, Abi, who was born Joann Kelly, says she remembers “waking up to him touching me” while she was pretending to be asleep, and that she first told this to her mother in 2009 when she was 10 years old .

“I really feel like that one millisecond completely changed my entire life and who I was as a person and how the shine that I had and the light that I used to carry inside of me was changed,” she said in the documentation. “After I told my mother, I stopped going there; my brother [Robert] and sister [Jaah]We didn’t go there anymore. And even up to now I have a lot of trouble with it.”

R. Kelly’s lawyer Jennifer Bonjean “vehemently denied” the allegations in a statement. Peoplethat the filmmakers never contacted Kelly to “dispute these hurtful allegations.”

“His ex-wife made the same claim years ago, which was investigated by the Illinois Department of Children & Family Services and found to be unfounded,” Bonjean said.

In 2022, a federal jury convicted the disgraced singer on six of 13 counts, including three counts each of producing child pornography and enticing minors to engage in illegal sexual activity. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison and then had the sentence extended on federal child pornography charges.

After the release of Lifetime’s Survivor R. Kelly In 2019, Abi expressed her support for the singer’s accusers in a lengthy, emotional statement.

“Same monster, y’all [are] What takes me to task is my father. “I know exactly who and what he is,” she said at the time. “I grew up in this house. My decision not to talk about him and what he does is for my peace of mind. My emotional state. And for MY healing. I have to do and move in the way that is best for me.”

From Rolling Stone US