R. Kelly’s daughter Buku claims the singer sexually abused her as a child in bombshell documentary ‘I Was Too Scared’

R. Kelly’s daughter Buku Abi claims the disgraced singer sexually abused her as a child

“He was my everything. For a long time I didn’t even want to believe it happened. I didn’t know he would do something to me even if he was a bad person,” Buku said of R Kelly, who was convicted of sex trafficking and racketeering in 2022 and convicted of child pornography in a separate case in 2023.

In the bombshell documentary, the musician explained that she was “too scared to tell anyone” after the incident. “I was too scared to tell my mother,” Buku said, as she shared further insight into her own father’s abuse: “I just remember waking up to him touching me.”

“And I didn’t know what to do, so I just laid there and pretended to be asleep,” the Growing Up Hip Hop: Atlanta alum added, revealing that the incident occurred when she was just eight or was nine years old.

She further said, “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 was changed.” Buku explained that the abuse caused her mental health problems and brought her to the point where “I didn’t care. I didn’t care if I lived or died.”

“I remember my mom and I went to Target one day and I had to use the bathroom. We went to the bathroom and she came out and I was washing my hands and she saw that my wrists were all cut and she immediately dropped everything and asked, ‘What’s wrong? Are you OK?'” recalled yourself Buku.

“After I told my mother, I stopped going there; my brother [Robert] and sister [Jaah]We didn’t go there anymore. And even now I have a lot of trouble with it,” she said.