Embattled singer R. Kelly appears to be in more trouble with her daughter Buku Abi coming forward to make a damning revelation about her childhood with her father, which will get the entire world dropping the axe on his head.
In the recent R Kelly’s Karma: A Daughter’s Journey program on TVEI, Buku Abi disclosed a sinister family truth involving her father.
The two-episode documentary, which debuted this past Friday, October 11, documented R. Kelly’s arrest and sentencing. It followed his ex-wife Andrea Kelly and his children, Robert, Jaah, and Buku, as they moved on with their lives.
Although Buku’s contributions—which she hinted at in the promotional trailer—might be the most noteworthy, Andrea’s parents Clifford and Melissa are also highlighted in the documentary.
She admitted to being molested in the first episode, although she did not go into great detail. She divulges additional information in the second episode, stating that she was awakened to the singer of Same Girl caressing her inappropriately when she was eight or nine years old.
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“I didn’t know what to do, so I just laid there and pretended to be asleep. He was my everything. For a long time, I didn’t even 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,” she stated.
“I really feel like that one millisecond completely just changed my whole life and changed who I was as a person and changed the sparkle I had 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,” Buku Abi recounted her traumatic experience.
Because Buku Abi waited until she was ten years old to notify her mother, they ultimately went to the police and opened a “Jane Doe” report.
Unfortunately, the law was unable to prosecute R. Kelly at the time because they took too long to report, so she felt as though she “said something for nothing.”
The issue of “delayed disclosure,” which is typical for victims of sexual assault, was another significant aspect of the documentary.
Individuals frequently withhold what happened from others for years or even decades because they need time to comprehend it all, especially if a close friend or relative was involved, which exacerbates feelings of guilt.
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