R Kelly's daughter says father's 'sex abuse' drove her to attempt suicide as bombshell claims emerge in new documentary

R Kelly's girl has explained however adjacent she came to termination aft her begetter allegedly molested her erstwhile she was a child.

Buku Abi, 26, said successful TVEI Streaming Network's two-episode documentary Karma: A Daughter’s Journey the disgraced vocalist abused her erstwhile she was 8 oregon nine.

She said she archetypal reported his alleged intersexual maltreatment to her parent successful 2009 erstwhile she was astir 10.

Kelly is serving a 31-year sentence astatine a medium-security national situation successful North Carolina after helium was convicted successful 2021 and 2022 of kid intersexual maltreatment charges.

Abi, calved Joann Kelly, told the documentary her father's alleged maltreatment triggered aggregate termination attempts and a enactment successful a intelligence hospital.

'For a agelong clip I was successful a truly hard abstraction mentally and truthful I ended up successful a intelligence hospital, a psych ward, immoderate you privation to telephone it... due to the fact that I deed a constituent successful my beingness wherever aggregate times, I had tried to instrumentality my ain life,' she said.

Abi said she yet confessed to her mother Andrea Kelly erstwhile she broke down crying successful the car connected the mode to school.

Andrea checked her successful to the infirmary that day, and she stayed for two-and-a-half weeks nether predominant observation.

'I was connected truly hard termination watch. And past for two, 3 months aft that, I was successful outpatient basically, truthful I had to spell determination each day,' she said.

But that didn't extremity her torment, and her parent noticed different clip erstwhile they went to people unneurotic that she had self-harmed. 

'I conscionable got to a constituent wherever I didn’t attraction anymore. I didn't attraction if I lived oregon died. I didn’t attraction astir what happened to me,' she said. 

'She conscionable instantly dropped everything and was asking, "What’s going on? Are you OK?"

'She was truly worried, and successful that moment, I broke down, and I had to archer her like, "I don't deliberation I'm OK. I don't deliberation that I tin bash this. I don't deliberation that I'm going to marque it done to unrecorded retired the remainder of my life".' 

Abi said she felt highly blameworthy astir the effect her heavy slump had connected her younger siblings Jaah and Robert Jr - present 23 and 22.

'That was decidedly scary. Waking up and not knowing, is my sister going to beryllium alive?' Robert said connected the documentary.

'Now that my sisters are older and stronger, it's decidedly subsided, but I inactive person my moments erstwhile they spell done thing hard.

'It's ever triggering due to the fact that you ne'er cognize what could beryllium someone’s past straw, and I’ve seen some of them get precise adjacent to their past straws, including my mom.'

Abi said Kelly's alleged intersexual maltreatment shattered her representation of her father, and for a agelong clip she didn't privation to judge it happened.

'I didn’t cognize that adjacent if helium was a atrocious idiosyncratic that helium would bash thing to me,' she said of her begetter successful the archetypal occurrence of the documentary.

'I was excessively frightened to archer anybody. I was excessively frightened to archer my mom,' she admitted.

Abi declined to stock details astir the maltreatment she allegedly suffered astatine the hands of her begetter successful the archetypal episode, which premiered for streaming past Friday.

However, she did accidental that situation was a 'well-suited place' for her begetter to be, a decision she arrived astatine based connected her 'personal experience' with him. 

She spoke of the ways Kelly's alleged maltreatment wholly altered the people of her life.

Abi added that 'one millisecond wholly changed my full beingness and changes who I was arsenic a idiosyncratic and changed the sparkle I had and the airy I utilized to carry.'

In the documentary, she made it wide that her visitations with her begetter ended aft she reported the alleged maltreatment to her mother, and she said her member Robert and sister Jaah besides stopped going to spot him.

But to this day, she 'still struggle[s] with it a lot'.

Abi revealed much details of her accusations successful the 2nd episode. 

'I conscionable retrieve waking up to him touching me,' she recounted done tears. 'And I didn't cognize what to do, truthful I conscionable benignant of laid there, and I pretended to beryllium asleep.'

The songstress said she told her parent — who is besides featured successful the documentary — what had happened, and the 2 past filed a constabulary ailment listing her arsenic a 'Jane Doe.'

However, the hold betwixt erstwhile the alleged maltreatment happened and erstwhile Abi told her parent whitethorn person scuttled their chances of getting justice.  

'They couldn't prosecute him due to the fact that I waited excessively long. So astatine that constituent successful my life, I felt similar I said thing for nothing,' she explained.

Kelly's attorney Jennifer Bonjean said his lawsuit vehemently denied the allegations. 

'His ex-wife made the aforesaid allegation years ago, and it was investigated by the Illinois Department of Children & Family Services and was unfounded,' she said.

'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.'

Although Kelly evaded situation erstwhile helium was acquitted of kid pornography charges successful 2008, helium was aboriginal convicted successful 2021 of each 9 racketeering and enactment trafficking charges successful New York.

Then, successful 2022, helium was convicted successful a national proceedings held successful Chicago of six retired of 13 charges, including counts for kid pornography and obstruction of justice.

He was sentenced to 30 years successful situation successful his New York proceedings and 20 years successful the aboriginal Chicago national trial, though the justice overseeing the second ruled that 19 of those 20 years would beryllium served concurrently with his earlier sentence, meaning helium has an effectual condemnation of 31 years now.

Rumors of Kelly's alleged maltreatment of women and young children flourished for years, and they were lone exacerbated by his narration with the vocalist Aaliyah.

After moving unneurotic successful the studio, the 2 had a secret, amerciable matrimony successful 1994. Aaliyah was lone 15 astatine the time, but her property was falsely listed connected the matrimony certificate arsenic 18. 

During a pre-trial proceeding for Kelly's aboriginal lawsuit successful New York, 1 of his attorneys admitted to a justice that they would not contradict that Kelly had had enactment with Aaliyah erstwhile she was inactive underage. 

The latest accusations against R. Kelly travel arsenic the rap mogul Sean 'Diddy' Combs is presently successful national custody facing enactment trafficking charges, arsenic good arsenic respective civilian suits from women alleging that helium sexually assaulted them.

The accusations swirling astir R. Kelly for years solidified successful 2019 with the merchandise of the six-hour Lifetime documentary Surviving R. Kelly.

In the aftermath of the documentary, which delved into the galore allegations made against him successful detail, Kelly grounds statement opted to driblet him.

Weeks later, helium was deed with transgression charges successful Chicago.