Disgraced singer/songwriter R. Kelly wasn’t only a monster to youthful girls. In line with a chilling account in a brand new ebook by his ex-wife, he was downright diabolical to her.
Andrea “Drea” Kelly sat down with host Osei the Darkish Secret throughout the newest episode of “The Tradition Membership Uncensored” to speak about her upcoming ebook, “Beneath the Pink Carpet,” and detailed a number of the most horrific experiences she endured throughout her 13-year marriage to the Grammy winner.
Like lots of his victims, Kelly met his ex-wife when she was a teen (19) at an audition to be his dancer. Actress LisaRaye McCoy launched them. Although they met whereas she was younger (albeit of age for a consensual relationship), they didn’t date till she turned 21. She mentioned the 2 had been first like “brothers and sisters,” however after some time, the dynamic modified to tormentor and sufferer.
One of many tales she shared was that he forcefully hogtied her one evening within the couple’s bed room, leaving her certain as he fell off to sleep.
Osei mentioned, “The way in which you instructed the story, it appeared as if he hogtied you, you had been on the aspect of the mattress, and he went to sleep within the mattress.”
In line with an earlier report, Kelly “received actually offended” together with her. As punishment, he took the “strap from his gown,” positioned his knee in her again and secured her arms to her legs earlier than drifting off to sleep.
The previous background dancer confirmed that that was true. The host then requested her how lengthy he had her tied up.
“I don’t even know. I simply keep in mind being like, ‘Alright, suppose. Suppose. Suppose You’re a dancer. You’re versatile. What are you able to do?” she recalled. “I do know I can get my toes as near my head as doable. Like, actually, it felt like a scene out of the films, the place they kidnapped someone and throw them behind the van.”
After explaining the scene, she mentioned she was questioning on the time, “Both I’m going determine the right way to get out of this, or when he wakes up, I don’t know what monster. … I don’t know if I’m getting the teddy bear or the grizzly bear.”
Drea described the scene as “loopy,” noting that when she lastly received free, she had one other impediment: escaping the bed room. Her husband had the door mounted to robotically lock, and anybody attempting to depart needed to press a button that made a click on sound that then signaled a bell. She nonetheless took her probabilities and tried to flee.
She recalled mapping out her plan, “I’m like there’s no time to seize a handbag. There’s no time to seize footwear. There’s no time to do something. I received about 10 seconds to get from that third ground all the way down to the primary ground to get to the door and out the door.”
The plan labored and she or he was capable of get free and out the door, however not with out waking him. Kelly leaped up and chased after her. Drea mentioned she was glad that there was no social media again then as a result of the headlines would have learn, “R. Kelly and Spouse Working Down the Avenue — She’s Screaming and Hollering, Barefoot.”
Osei requested her, “What was it like when he caught as much as you? What transpires at the moment?”
“Instantly, you’re considering, ‘I’m gonna die,’” she mentioned to the host, including that he didn’t care that folks had been watching them, he chased her, caught her, and continued to terrorize her.
Drea mentioned the total story is the ebook, one which she was really reluctant to write down, saying she was “on the fence” about it due to the judgment from R. Kelly’s “tremendous followers.”
“I get why his tremendous followers really feel the best way they do,” she confesses earlier than saying that Black individuals want icons to make them really feel proud.
She added, “After we get that one which made it out, it seems like we’re rooting for ourselves. We really feel like we’re rooting for our uncle. We’re rooting for our dad. We’re rooting for our son. So, we really feel like defend them in any respect prices, however then when will we begin to defend the Black girl in any respect prices?”
The “Hollywood Exes” actuality star has spoken out about his abuse earlier than, claiming that after he attacked her behind a Hummer and that she nonetheless suffers indicators of PTSD each time she sees the automobile on the road or highway.
“Each time I might see Hummers on the highway, I might shake, my fingers would sweat, and I might get nervous, and I couldn’t breathe,” she instructed The Jasmine Model in 2018.
The convicted abuser is at the moment serving a 30-year sentence in a medium-security federal correctional middle in Butner, North Carolina, and is slated for launch on Dec. 21, 2045, near when he turns 79.
Kelly’s conviction stems from racketeering and intercourse trafficking fees in federal court docket in New York, together with accusations of working a prison enterprise to use younger girls and youngsters.
The interview (and her ebook) exhibits that being the “I Imagine I Can Fly” singer’s spouse didn’t save her from being one in all his victims.
