Joann Kelly, the daughter of a famous American singer, R. Kelly, has claimed that her father sexually abused her as a child.
Speaking in a new two part documentary series for the TVEI Streaming Network, Joann said she first reported the abuse to her mother, Drea, in 2009.
The 26-year-old who did not detail the alleged abuse, stated in an episode of the documentary titled ‘Karma: A Daughter’s Journey’, that the jail sentence of the 57-year-old singer is well deserved.
“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.”
Reacting to the documentary, the singer’s lawyer, Jennifer Bonjean in a public statement denied the allegations.
We recall that 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.