‘I was too afraid to tell anyone’
Media Take Out has learned that R. Kelly’s daughter Buku Abi is speaking publicly for the first time about the alleged abuse she suffered at the hands of her father as a child.
During the final minutes of EI streaming network’s new two-episode documentary Karma: A Daughter’s Journey, which premiered yesterday, Abi, 26, says the singer abused her as a child, and first raped her in 2009. I informed my mother Andrea about this. When she was 10 years old.
“He was my everything. For a long time I didn’t want to believe that it happened. I didn’t know that even though he was a bad person that he would do something to me,” she says in the documentary, the first episode of which is now streaming. “I was so afraid to tell anyone. I was too afraid to tell my mother.”
Abi, who was born Joan Kelly, did not elaborate on the alleged abuse, saying she believed prison was a “well-suited place” for Kelly, 57, as That she knows from her “personal experience”.
She says, “I really feel like that one millisecond completely changed my whole life and changed who I was as a person and the glow that I had and the light that I carried, changed it.” “After telling my mother, I didn’t go there anymore; My brother [Robert] and sister [Jaah]We don’t go there anymore. And even now I am struggling with it a lot.
