To say R. Kelly’s reputation has been tarnished over the years would be an understatement. The R&B star has faced a string of sexual abuse allegations and was accused of running an underage “sex cult” out of his home. Now, Kelly’s ex-wife Andrea Kelly is detailing her marriage to the singer.
In a new episode of The View, Andrea opened up about the alleged physical abuse she said she endured from 1996 to 2002. She recalled one incident in the back of a Hummer where she thought she was going to meet her demise.
“I just remember sitting in the back of the Hummer and it got blue,” Andrea said. “And I just thought, oh my god, I’m gonna die in the back of this Hummer. And he’s gonna drive off with my body in the back seat, and nobody’s gonna know.”
She then explained how R. Kelly once tied her up and she had to wait for him to fall asleep so she could make her escape.
“Me being a dancer, I’m like, ‘If I keep moving my legs, it’s eventually gonna make this loose,” she said. “And if I can get my legs loose, I can get my arms loose. I finally did and got away.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFpcvwPrbR8
Toward the end of the conversation, the former Mrs. R. Kelly reveals it was her daughter who finally gave her the courage to leave.
“We were looking at pictures, and the long and short of it is, he was being belligerent with me,” Andrea said. “And my daughter goes, ‘Daddy, why are you being mean to my mom? Why are you talking to her that way?’
“And it was like a light went off for me, because I knew in that moment, if you stay, and she ends up with a man like him, and you tell her to leave, she’s gonna say, ‘But why would I? You stayed with my dad all those years.’ So I knew I had to be a living example for my daughter.”
The couple’s divorce was finalized in 2009.
In July, Andrea released a scathing “remix” as a response to her ex-husband’s 19-minute confessional. Throughout the song, Andrea implores R. Kelly to simply tell the truth.
“Admit it Admit it Admit it Your mama IS watching over you And rolling over in her grave because of the ABUSIVE things you do,” she wrote. “You say she’s looking down from heaven So there’s nothing she didn’t see Which means she saw you BEAT me from heaven and neglect her grand babies.”
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This is so so old news, nobody cares. He not thinking about you, and you want to get paid doing interviews because you not relevant and can’t do nothing to make money but to either dance or lay on your back. If you feel a certain type of way, change your last name back to watever the hell it was, and stop pigging back of this man’s name to make money. When you first started doing interviews about the man you was looking like a dope fien. At least, the “R” was taking care of you, better than your self!
Shut up, Kels! Get you ass off the internet and stop pissing on underage girls. Find Jesus!
Go to the police if you have a problem. Stop airing your dirty laundry in public.
Women gravitate towards men with money and power and when the guy turns out to be a piece of crap they stay in it for the money and fame stop selling yourself out 4 these type of guys there are always signs he is abusive or a sex fiend
He must’ve beat the P up so bad in the Hummer that she thought is was domestic violence.
Imagine what kind of disgusting sexual shit this chick did for R Kelly back in the day
the scene in atlanta is quite perverted anyway. what else has been going on?
Men resort to being assholes as a short term mating strategy, because it works. If women want to stop “toxic masculinity” they have to stop enabling the behaviour.
Simply change your last name if you so want to get over it. Keeping that name means it comes with some benefits you wouldn’t want to lose. R Kelly is still an idiot tho
if kelz dont relesea a series about omg im bout to die in the back of this hummer, smoke this dro, bang the drummas imma be lit
i believe Victim´s should speak up and share their stories but once she did that response song ,it was clear that her life evolves too much around his …money grab,fame grab
They´ve been divorced for 10years !
She should do her press tour,put out her book and then try to move on