R. Kelly's daughter, Buku Abi, has made startling accusations against the incarcerated singer in a new documentary for the TVEI Streaming Network. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Buku alleges that R. Kelly sexually abused her during her childhood. 'He was my everything. For a long time, I didn't even want to believe that it happened. I didn't know that even if he was a bad person that he would do something to me,' Buku Abi tearfully recounts in 'R. Kelly's Karma: A Daughter's Journey.' 'I was too scared to tell anybody. I was too scared to tell my mom.'
The two-part documentary unveils Abi's untold story, featuring emotional interviews with her siblings, Jaah and Robert Kelly Jr., and their mother, Drea Kelly. 'What he did to me, he did to me. But you didn't have to do it to my kids,' his ex-wife laments.
'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,' Abi says, as reported by People. 'My brother (Robert) and sister (Jaah), we didn't go over there anymore. And even up until now, I struggle with it a lot.'
R. Kelly's lawyer, Jennifer Bonjean of the New York City-based Bonjean Law Group, vehemently denies these allegations in a statement to People. '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.'
In 2021, Kelly, renowned for his hit 'I Believe I Can Fly,' was convicted in a sex trafficking trial after decades of evading criminal charges for misconduct involving young women and children. In February 2023, Kelly was sentenced in Chicago to 20 years in prison on charges of child pornography and enticement of minors for sex. The previous year, he was sentenced to 30 years in prison for racketeering and sex trafficking charges stemming from New York.
