R. Kelly's daughter Joan Kelly appears in upcoming documentary “R. Kelly's Karma: A Daughter's Journey” She made it clear that she was not interested in introducing her future son to his grandfather.
“If my son asks a question, I'm going to answer it as honestly as I can. And I'm not going to take him to prison to meet his grandfather,” said Joanne, who appears pregnant in the footage. said in a trailer for the documentary released on Sunday.
As for her relationship with her father, the expectant mother reflected on her childhood with her famous father, 57, and admitted that he was “everything to me,” but she also admitted that he was guilty of extortion charges. After receiving his sentence, he said they were no longer close. Charged with sex trafficking in September 2021.
“For a long time, I didn't want to believe that it happened. Even if he was a bad person, I didn't know he would do something to me,” said the 30-year-old at Chicago's Metropolitan Correctional Center. she said of the “I'm a Cheating” singer, who is serving a year-long sentence. .
“No one wants to be the child of a father who hurts women and children. He knows exactly why we can't have the kind of relationship we wanted with him.”
“I truly feel that that one millisecond completely changed my entire life,” Joan continued, referring to her father's conviction.
The 26-year-old's mother, who was married to the singer from 1996 to 2009, also spoke in the documentary. Drea Kelly slammed the disgraced music artist for not being the current father of her children.
“Just because he's not a good husband doesn't mean he can't be a good father. And the fact that he didn't even try,” Drea, 50, said of her ex-husband.
“What he did to me, he did to me. But he didn't have to do that to my kids.”
Joan's siblings, including Jah Kelly and Robert Kelly Jr., will also appear in the documentary.
In addition to Kelly's 30-year prison term, the Grammy Award winner was also found guilty of six counts of child sex crimes, including producing child pornography and enticing a minor to engage in sexual activity.
In February 2023, he sentenced to 20 years in prisonNineteen of those charges will be served in conjunction with the sentence in New York.
“R. Kelly's Karma: A Daughter's Journey” will premiere on October 11th on the Tvei Network.
