Another R. Kelly survivor has come forward, detailing the horrible experience she allegedly went through after the disgraced singer assaulted her following her discovery of an Aaliyah sex tape.
The victim’s testimony was given as part of Surviving R. Kelly: The Final Chapter, the final part of the acclaimed docu-series that will chronicle the subsequent trials and overall fallout that transpired against R. Kelly following the 2019 charges that led to his 30-year prison sentence for sex trafficking.
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A particularly harrowing anecdote came from survivor Ebonié Doyle, who recalled an experience with Kelly after having known the R&B singer for years.
“I was 16 years old when I met Rob in 1993,” Doyle said in part. “My friends and I went to a show, and he was there with other artists, and I just remember his voice was just amazing. After the show, my girlfriend and I were waiting outside, we were ready to go to our cars, and a limousine pulls up.”
She claimed Kelly invited them to his hotel room, and that the pair became very close. She claimed his tour bus would wait outside of her high school for her, and that he even attended her graduation. Her mother eventually kicked Doyle out of the house for seeing him, so she moved in with the 55-year-old.
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She went on to describe how Kelly became more and more controlling during their time together, stating he was “really controlling,” particularly about “certain things sexually he liked his way.” She said Kelly made her arch her back for “literally hours.”
“He would even take breaks,” she said in the doc. “He would come back and check on me to see if I was still in that same position, meanwhile keeping the camera on to see if I moved when he asked me not to. He was wanting to groom me to be the person that he wanted me to be for him — just for him.”
She went on to describe one instance where she accidentally stumbled upon a sex tape involving a young Aaliyah.
“I see this basket full of tapes, and I’m like, ‘Well, maybe I’ll just grab one of these tapes, and let me go in the other rooms and see if there’s a VHS so I can watch a movie,’ because I was bored,” Doyle said. “That’s when I discovered that he’d been lying to me about Aaliyah.
“The tape that I put in was of him and Aaliyah together. What I saw on that tape was he and Aaliyah being intimate. They were on the tour bus, and everything that I had asked him was confirmed on the tape.”
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When Kelly caught her, an argument over the tape ensued, and he ended up shoving her down a flight of stairs.
“That shake sent me down flights of stairs, and I just laid there. I just froze. That was the moment where I realized [how] to pick and choose my battles,” she said. “Like, I loved him … I love [Kelly]. He’s still important to me. And so, he’s not some horrible man to me. And I don’t want people to think that.”
She concluded, “I just wish that he would get the help he needs. Like, he’s not a bad person, he just does bad things. Does that make [sense]?”
The first Surviving R. Kelly installment was instrumental in bringing new charges against the R&B singer and was so impactful that Kelly himself fought to ensure the jurors at his trial hadn’t seen the film.
R. Kelly was found guilty on nine counts in New York, including racketeering, transporting individuals across state lines for illegal sexual activity, coercion and enticement and the transportation of a minor. He was sentenced to 30 years behind bars for those charges, and then faced trial again in his hometown of Chicago, where he was convicted of child pornography charges by a federal jury in September.
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“What R. Kelly wanted was to have sex with young girls,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeannice Appenteng in closing arguments. “And what the people around him wanted… they wanted to help their boss, including helping him get away with it. You saw how (Kelly) was using her body, flipping her over, throwing her around like she was some rag doll. That’s what this case is about.”
The Lifetime series will air its two-part special on January 2 and 3 on Lifetime starting at 8:00 p.m. ET.
