R Kelly’s daughter Joanne Kelly has expressed that she has no intention of letting her future son meet his grandfather.
“If my son asks questions, I’m going to be as truthful as possible. And I will not be taking my son to prison to meet his grandfather,” she vows in a clip from her upcoming documentary R Kelly’s Karma: A Daughter’s Journey.
The expectant mum looked back on her childhood with Kelly and says he “was my everything” but they’re no longer close after he was convicted on racketeering and sex trafficking charges in September 2021.
“For a long time, I didn’t even want to believe that it happened,” she says of the singer, who is serving a 30-year sentence in Chicago’s Metropolitan Correctional Centre.
“Nobody wants to be the child of the father that is out here hurting women and children.”
In addition to his 30-year sentence, R Kelly was found guilty of six counts of child sex crimes, including producing child pornography and persuading a minor to participate in sexual acts.
He was further sentenced to 20 years in prison in February 2023, with 19 years to be served concurrently with his New York sentence.
Joanne’s siblings Jaah Kelly and Robert Kelly Jr. also make appearances in the documentary.
