DAUGHTER of America rapper, R. Kelly, Joann Kelly, has claimed that her father sexually abused her as a child.
The 26-year-old speaking in a new two-part documentary series for the TVEI Streaming Network noted she first reported the abuse to her mother, Drea, in 2009.
“My father was my everything. For a long time, I didn’t want to believe that it happened. I didn’t know that he would do something to me even if he was a bad person.
“I was too scared to tell anybody. I was too scared to tell my mom. I really feel like that one millisecond completely just changed my whole life, who I was as a person and the light I used to carry.
“After I told my mom, I didn’t go over there anymore; my brother (Robert) and sister (Jaah), we didn’t go over there anymore. And even up until now, I struggle with it a lot,” she said.
The singer was sentenced to 20 years in prison in February 2023, for child pornography and enticement charges.
He will serve the years concurrently with a prior 30-year prison sentence from a separate case in New York on July 29, 2022.
