Joanne Kelly has pledged to defend her unborn little one 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 costs.
“If my son asks questions, I’m going to be as truthful as doable. And I cannot be taking my son to jail to fulfill his grandfather,” she firmly acknowledged.
The previous music mogul’s fall from grace presents a fancy household dilemma as Joanne, as soon as describing R. Kelly as “my every little thing,” now grapples with the grim actuality of his actions.
For years, Joanne struggled to simply accept the accusations in opposition to her father, R. Kelly, who’s at present serving a 30-year sentence at Chicago’s Metropolitan Correctional Middle.
“For a very long time, I didn’t even need to consider that it occurred,” she revealed, reflecting on the anguish of being the daughter of a person discovered responsible of harming girls and minors.
Alongside his current sentence, the R&B artist was dealt a further 20-year sentence in 2023 for little one intercourse offenses, together with creating little one pornography and making an attempt 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.
