R. Kelly’s Ex-Girlfriend Speaks Out About His Alleged Physical and Emotional Abuse
In July, BuzzFeed published an explosive
report alleging R. Kelly had been holding a group of young women in a “sex
cult.” Now, his former girlfriend, Kitti Jones, is speaking out in an interview
with Rolling Stone about the alleged physical and
emotional abuse she suffered while they were together.
Jones told Rolling Stone that
she met Kelly in 2011 at an after-party at his Dallas concert while she was
working as a DJ for a radio station. By that November, she had quit her job,
sold her car, and moved into Kelly’s Chicago apartment — where he had rules
about what and when she could eat, when she could go to the bathroom, what she
could wear (baggy sweatpants when she was out), and more. Jones says he also
physically abused her.
In January 2013, Kelly moved Jones from
his apartment to a nearby recording studio, which had several rooms for living
quarters, where he reportedly housed Jones and other girlfriends. The women were
allegedly kept separate from each other, and cameras monitored their every
move.
Per Rolling Stone: Two months into living at the
studio, Jones says, Kelly began using starvation on her as punishment for not
following his orders. Jones says the longest she went without food was two and a
half days, though single days without a meal were not uncommon.
Jones claims her coerced sexual
encounters with women became more frequent as time went on.
“Ninety-nine percent of the time, I
didn’t want to do it and I would tell him I didn’t want to do it,” Jones claims
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Eventually, Jones started to contemplate suicide.
“I just said, ‘I’m gonna kill myself and it’s gonna be his fault,’” she told
Rolling Stone. “‘I can either kill myself or kill him. What use am I when I walk
out of here?’”
But in August 2013, Jones told Kelly she wanted to visit her son in Dallas —
and never returned. The entire interview is harrowing, and can be read here.
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