Last week on the TVEI streaming network's two-episode documentary, 'Karma: A Daughter’s Journey,' R. Kelly's daughter, Buku Abi, revealed she had been molested by the singer as a child [click here if you missed that].
Later in the series Abi admits she became so depressed considered taking her own life...
From The Daily Mail
Abi, born Joann Kelly, told the documentary her father's alleged abuse triggered multiple suicide attempts, as well as a stay in a mental hospital.
'For a long time I was in a really hard space mentally and so I ended up in a mental hospital, a psych ward, whatever you want to call it... because I hit a point in my life where multiple times, I had tried to take my own life,' she said.
Abi said she finally confessed to her mother Andrea Kelly when she broke down crying in the car on the way to school.
Andrea checked her in to the hospital that day, and she stayed for two-and-a-half weeks under frequent observation.
'I was on really hard suicide watch. And then for two, three months after that, I was in outpatient basically, so I had to go there every day,' she said.
But that didn't end her torment, and her mother noticed another time when they went to Target together that she had self-harmed.
'I just got to a point where I didn’t care anymore. I didn't care if I lived or died. I didn’t care about what happened to me,' she said.
'She just immediately dropped everything and was asking, "What’s going on? Are you OK?"
'She was really worried, and in that moment, I broke down, and I had to tell her like, "I don't think I'm OK. I don't think that I can do this. I don't think that I'm going to make it through to live out the rest of my life".'
Abi said she felt extremely guilty about the effect her deep depression had on her younger siblings Jaah and Robert Jr - now 23 and 22.
'That was definitely scary. Waking up and not knowing, is my sister going to be alive?' Robert said on the documentary.
'Now that my sisters are older and stronger, it's definitely subsided, but I still have my moments when they go through something hard.
'It's always triggering because you never know what could be someone’s last straw, and I’ve seen both of them get very close to their last straws, including my mom.'
Abi said Kelly's alleged sexual abuse shattered her image of her father, and for a long time she didn't want to believe it happened.
'I didn’t know that even if he was a bad person that he would do something to me,' she said of her father in the first episode of the documentary.
'I was too scared to tell anybody. I was too scared to tell my mom,' she admitted.
Abi declined to share details about the abuse she allegedly suffered at the hands of her father in the first episode, which premiered for streaming last Friday.
However, she did say that prison was a 'well-suited place' for her father to be, a conclusion she arrived at based on her 'personal experience' with him.
11 comments:
Just sad
Why is her mother asking is she ok in target when before that she was checked into a mental health facility and had confessed to her mother that her father touched her? You see this is exactly wtf I’m talking about we see this a lot in our community sometimes it uncles or the family friend or a boyfriend or husband and all we do in the community is cover it up. Because if we pressed charges like we should guess tf what the message would be sent that this is not ok!! And it will slow down in occurrence not stop but at least slow down when you have individuals feeling like they are protected or able to hide behind the excuse of I didn’t know she was young she look grown or these girls are fast these days or just a blatant cover up or ignoring of it all together this is what we get. GENERATIONS OF BROKEN PEOPLE FOR OTHERS TO HAVE TO DEAL WITH!
I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING @JCEE ESPECIALLY HOW YOU SEEM TO BE SO CONCERNED ABOUT THE AILS OF THE COMMUNITY & ALL.
THAT BEING SAID, I CONTEND THAT JOANN KELLY MAY HAVE BEEN PLACED IN A PYSCH WARD FOR OTHER REASONS THAN WHAT IS STATED
In my opinion and based on what I have read, R. Kelly comes from a long linage of incest. I believe his grandfather is actually his biological father. His brother Carey had admitted that their older sister molested he and Robert. He also heavily insinuated that their grandfather molested his own daughter and granddaughter (their older sister) regularly. They ain’t the only black “celebrity” family I believe practiced incest, add the DeBarges (the Daddy molested Bunny) and, in my opinion the Stokes family (Chris Stokes, Smooth (his sister) and we have heard about the late Aretha Franklin and her father. This is in MY OPINION.
@4:27 PM
THANKS FOR YOUR OPINION
I HAVE HEARD MOST OF THESE RUMORS ESPECIALLY THE ARETHA FRANKLIN STORY & THE R.KELLY FAMILY STORY
IN FACT, SISTER 2 SISTER MAGAZINE WRITER JAMIE FOSTER-BROWN ONCE REPORTED THAT R. KELLY HAD PROPSED MARRIAGE TO HIS MOTHER JOANNA KELLY
SO I'M NOT SURPRISED
I STILL BELIEVE THAT THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE GOING ON MENTALLY WITH KELLZ'S DAUGHTER & IT HAS VERY LITTLE TO DO WITH HER CLAIMS ABOUT HER DAD.
I don't understand., she said he touched her 1 time. ?? Was this 1 time or a whole bunch of times?
Abi and her mother are victims. That's the only fact you need to know.
WE DON'T NONE OF WHAT'S BEING SAID AS FACT, GIVEN NONE OF US KNOW THESE PEOPLE NOR WERE WE IN THEIR HOME WHEN THIS WAS ALLEGEDLY OCCURRING EITHER
WiserWords2
@Jcee
You have no idea what you are talking about. Covering up sexual abuse is NOT a Black community problem, it is an AMERICAN culture problem.
NO ONE BUT YOU IN YOUR PREVIOUS COMMENT ISSUED THIS AS A BLACK, WHITE, PINK, GREEN, BLUE PROBLEM
IT'S CLEARLY A BIG PROBLEM GLOBALLY, BUT SO IS MENTAL HEALTH CONCERNS AS WELL
AGAIN, NONE OF US KNOW THESE PEOPLE PERSONALLY & CANNOT SPEAK IT AS FACT
thank you, @7:11pm
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