Singer R Kelly’s eldest daughter Buku Abi is opening up about her past traumas at the hands of her disgraced father. In a new documentary called Karma: A Daughter’s Journey, the 26-year-old claimed the Burn It Up singer sexually assaulted her. In a two-part documentary that premiered on TVEI on Friday, Buku, formerly known as Joan Kelly, revealed that during her childhood, she once woke up to her father allegedly “touching” her Was.
R Kelly’s daughter Buku Abi claims the disgraced singer sexually abused her as a child
“He was my everything. For a long time I didn’t want to believe that it happened. I didn’t know that even though he was a bad person that he would do something to me,” Buku said of R. Kelly, who was convicted of sex trafficking and racketeering in 2022 and a separate one for child pornography in 2023. Was convicted in the case.
In the explosive documentary, the musician revealed that after the incident, she was “too scared to tell anyone.” “I was too scared to tell my mother,” Buku said. Buku gave further details of her abuse at the hands of her father, saying, “All I remember is that I woke up and he touched me.”
“And I didn’t know what to do, so I just lay there and pretended to be asleep,” the Growing Up Hip Hop: Atlanta alumna said. She revealed that the incident happened when she was just eight or nine years old. ,
She added, “I really feel like that one millisecond changed my whole life and changed who I was as a person and changed the glow that I had and the light that I had.” Buku explained that the abuse created mental health problems for her and led her to the point where “I didn’t care anymore. I didn’t care whether I lived or died.”
“I remember one day, me and my mom, we went to Target and I had to go to the bathroom. We went into the bathroom and she came out and I was washing my hands and she saw that my wrists were all cut up, and she immediately dropped everything down, and she was like, ‘What’s happening? Are you okay?” Buku remembered.
“After telling my mother, I didn’t go there anymore; My brother [Robert] and sister [Jaah]We don’t go there anymore. And I still struggle with it a lot,” she shared.
