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R. Kelly's Daughter Buku Says Singer Sexually Abused Her as a Child: 'I Was Too Scared to Tell Anybody'
R. Kelly's daughter Buku Abi is opening up for the first time about alleged abuse she suffered during her childhood. Abi tells her story in the new TVEI Streaming Network documentary 'R. Kelly's Karma: A Daughter's Journey'.
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Though Abi, who was born Joann Kelly, does not go into detail about the alleged abuse in the first episode, she says that she believes jail is a “well-suited place” for Kelly, 57, to be, as she knows from her “personal experience.”
“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,” she says. “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.”
The episode ends with information about delayed disclosure, which explains that many victims of child sex abuse wait years or decades to reveal what happened to them.