In her new documentary, R. Kelly’s daughter, Buku Abi, revealed that she once considered taking her life after the singer allegedly sexually abused her.
“For a long time I did not even want to believe that it happened,” Buku Abi says in R. Kelly’s Karma: A Daughter’s Journey. “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 and changed who I was as a person. Changed the sparkle I had and the light that I used to carry.”
R. Kelly’s daughter, Buku Abi, is opening up for the first time about the alleged abuse she suffered as a child, alleging she was one of her dad’s victims. pic.twitter.com/g7sZPgMGsY
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The artist says she woke up to her father touching her in her sleep when she was eight or nine years old.
Abi says that during a car ride to school, she told her mother, Andrea Kelly, that she wasn’t okay. She says she was then hospitalized for several weeks before she underwent a period of intensive outpatient care.
Kelly’s attorney released a statement last week denying the allegations.
“Mr. Kelly vehemently denies these allegations,” said Jennifer Bonjean. “His ex-wife made the same 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 reach out to Mr. Kelly or his team to even allow him to deny these hurtful claims.”
The documentary is now streaming on TVEI.