Joanne Kelly has pledged to defend her unborn baby from her father R. Kelly’s troubled legacy, stating she received’t take her son to go to his grandfather behind bars.
In her upcoming documentary “R. Kelly’s Karma: A Daughter’s Journey,” Kelly mirrored on each her previous relationship along with her father and their present estrangement following his 2021 conviction on racketeering and intercourse trafficking prices.
“If my son asks questions, I’m going to be as truthful as doable. And I can’t be taking my son to jail to satisfy his grandfather,” she firmly said.
The previous music mogul’s fall from grace presents a fancy household dilemma as Joanne, as soon as describing R. Kelly as “my every thing,” now grapples with the grim actuality of his actions.
For years, Joanne struggled to just accept the accusations in opposition to her father, R. Kelly, who’s at the moment serving a 30-year sentence at Chicago’s Metropolitan Correctional Heart.
“For a very long time, I didn’t even need to imagine that it occurred,” she revealed, reflecting on the anguish of being the daughter of a person discovered responsible of harming ladies and minors.
Alongside his current sentence, the R&B artist was dealt an extra 20-year sentence in 2023 for baby intercourse offenses, together with creating baby pornography and trying to lure a minor for sexual acts.
Nonetheless, 19 of these years will run concurrently along with his earlier sentence.
Joanne’s siblings, Jaah Kelly and Robert Kelly Jr. seem within the documentary and wrestle with their father’s tarnished repute.
