R Kelly’s daughter accuses singer of sexually abusing her as a child: ‘Was too scared to tell anybody’

She said, “I didn’t cognize that adjacent if helium was a atrocious idiosyncratic that helium would bash thing to me. I was excessively frightened to archer anybody. I was excessively frightened to archer my mom,” Buku added successful the two-part documentary R Kelly’s Karma: A Daughter’s Journey, which besides features affectional interviews with her siblings, Jaah and Robert Kelly Jr arsenic good arsenic her mother, Drea Kelly, who filed for divorcement with the vocalist successful 2009.

In an interrogation with People, Buku Abi said the infinitesimal of maltreatment wholly altered her life, dimming the “sparkle” she had within. “I truly consciousness similar that 1 millisecond wholly conscionable changed my full beingness and changed who I was arsenic a idiosyncratic and changed the sparkle I had and the airy I utilized to carry. After I told my mom, I didn’t spell implicit determination anymore. My member [Robert] and sister [Jaah], we didn’t spell implicit determination anymore. And adjacent up until now, I conflict with it a lot.”

Singer R Kelly (AP/File)

R Kelly’s lawyer, Jennifer Bonjean, of the New York City-based Bonjean Law Group, sent a connection to People and denied the allegations, stating, “His ex-wife made the aforesaid 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 scope retired to Mr Kelly oregon his squad to adjacent let him to contradict these hurtful claims.”

In 2021, the R&B popstar was convicted successful a enactment trafficking proceedings amid galore allegations of misconduct with young women and children.