R. Kelly’s Lawyer Reacts After His Daughter Buku Abi Alleges He Inappropriately Touched Her As A Child

R. Kelly‘s children and ex-wife, Andrea Kelly, person spoken retired astir their alleged experiences with the vocalist earlier and aft his imprisonment. In a recently released documentary, his daughter, Buku Abi (real sanction Joann), recalls her dada allegedly touching her inappropriately arsenic a child.

Meanwhile, Kelly’s lawyer, Jennifer Bonjean, has formally denied what Buku shared successful the two-episode project, ‘Karma: A Daughter’s Journey.’

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The documentary premiered connected Oct. 11 connected TVEI Streaming Network. As mentioned, it features each of his kids, including his sons Jay and Robert Jr. Jay was biologically calved female, but helium came retired arsenic transgender successful 2014 astatine property 14. Andrea is the parent of each 3 of R. Kelly’s kids.

During the archetypal occurrence of the documentary, Buku Abi opened up astir not wanting to judge the intersexual maltreatment occurred. She admitted to archetypal telling her parent astir it successful 2009 erstwhile she was 10. However, earlier telling Andrea, Buku said she felt “too frightened to archer anyone.”

“He was my everything. For a agelong time, I didn’t adjacent privation to judge that it happened. I didn’t cognize that adjacent if helium was a atrocious idiosyncratic that helium would bash thing to me,” R. Kelly’s girl said.

Buku Abi says aft she told her parent what happened, she and her siblings didn’t spell to her dad’s anymore. However, the incidental continues to beryllium thing she struggles with a lot. “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,” Abi said.

The 2nd occurrence sees Buku Abi describing the alleged maltreatment and however she reacted. She cried portion explaining.

“I conscionable retrieve waking up to him touching me,” Abi recalled. “And I didn’t cognize what to do, truthful I conscionable benignant of laid there, and I pretended to beryllium asleep.”

Ultimately, Joanne said her begetter couldn’t beryllium prosecuted aft she and her ma filed a constabulary study due to the fact that she had “waited excessively long” to speak. “So astatine that constituent successful my life, I felt similar I said thing for nothing,” she shared.

R. Kelly’s Lawyer Reacts To The Documentary Allegations

As mentioned, Kelly’s lawyer, Bonjean, released a connection to PEOPLE astir Buku Abi’s allegations connected the singer’s behalf. Bonjean said these allegations had antecedently been investigated and could not beryllium proven.

“Mr. Kelly vehemently denies these 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….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.”

Also, his sons and Buku each shared successful the docuseries that they judge Kelly being successful situation is wherever helium belongs. “If you don’t privation to spell to jail, don’t bash s**t that gets you locked up,” Robert Jr. stated. While Jay stated, “You marque your bed, you laic successful it.” Meanwhile, Buku said that jailhouse is simply a “well-suited” spot for her father.

Daughter Says She’s Previously Had Suicidal Thoughts

Additionally, successful ‘Karma: A Daughter’s Journey,’ Buku Abi said she antecedently felt suicidal. “I conscionable got to a constituent wherever I didn’t attraction anymore. I didn’t attraction if I lived oregon died,” she said. Abi confessed her thoughts to her parent aft a cutting incidental astatine Target.

“I retrieve 1 day, my ma and I, we went to Target and I had to usage the bathroom. We went to the bath and she came retired and I was washing my hands and she saw that my wrists were each chopped up, and she conscionable instantly dropped everything…”

Joanne Kelly said Andrea kept inquiring if she was good portion being “really worried.” She responded by breaking down and admitting she wasn’t good and felt similar her beingness was going to beryllium chopped short.

“I don’t deliberation that I’m gonna marque it done to unrecorded retired the remainder of my life,” Buku said she told her mother.

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