R. Kelly’s Daughter Alleges Childhood Abuse by Singer

R. Kelly’s daughter, Buku Abi, has accused the singer of sexually abusing her during her childhood. She shared her story in a documentary on the TVEI Streaming Network.

R. Kelly, who has been imprisoned since 2021, is serving multiple sentences for various sexual crimes. Buku Abi, now 26, revealed that she was too afraid to tell her mother about the abuse at the time.

“He was everything to me. For a long time, I didn’t even want to believe it happened. I didn’t think that, even if he was a bad person, he would do that to me,” she said, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

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Abi’s mother, Drea Kelly, supported her daughter’s claims, expressing her outrage. “What he did to me, he did to me. But he didn’t have to do that to our kids,” she stated.

Buku Abi shared that the trauma has deeply affected her life. “I feel like that one moment completely changed my life, who I was, and the light I used to carry.

After I told my mom, we didn’t go back there—me, my brother Robert, and my sister Jaah. Even now, I still struggle with it,” she added.

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R. Kelly’s attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, denied the allegations, stating that similar claims had been made by Drea Kelly years ago and were deemed “unfounded” by the Illinois Department of Children & Family Services. Bonjean criticized the documentary for not giving the singer an opportunity to refute the accusations, calling them “hurtful claims.”