“That 1 millisecond completely just changed my whole life,” Buku Abi says in a new documentary.
Kelly has denied the allegations.
Kelly’s Karma: A Daughter’s Story.
Buku Abi, a.k.a. Joanne Kelly, in ‘Kelly’s Karma: A Daughter’s Journey’.TVEI Network
“It was really hard.
He was my everything,” Abi, 26, says in the first episode of the two-part doc.
“For a long time I didn’t even want to believe that it happened.
R. Kelly in court in 2019.E. JASON WAMBSGANS/AFP via Getty
“Mr. Kelly vehemently denies these allegations,” Bonjean said.
Kelly’s attorney said the allegation was “100% false” when the allegation was publicized in 2020.
Kelly’s Karmaidentifies Abi as the Jane Doe in this case.
In the second episode ofR.
So I just kinda laid there and I pretended to be asleep.”
Abi says she immediately felt the weight of the situation.
“I just remember from that moment on, I was a different person.
I wasn’t the same,” she says.
So for a long time I just tried to put it somewhere else.
But it got to a point where it was too much.
It was too much to not talk about.
It was too much to not deal with, so I had to tell my mom."
Abi says she told her mother about the alleged abuse in 2009, when she was 10.
My brother and sister, we didn’t go over there anymore.
And even up until now, I struggle with it a lot.
“My mom had to go to court for me.
I felt like it was a waste of time.
And I felt like I was putting my mom through so much for nothing.”
He pleaded not guilty and was acquitted.
Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Courtdeclined to hear Kelly’s appealin the Chicago case.
