R. Kelly‘s former girlfriendAzriel Claryis claiming the singer verbally and physically abused her while they were together.
Azriel first met Kelly, 53, when she was just 17 and soon went on to become one of his five live-in girlfriends, she toldThe Sun.
She explained to the outlet that Kelly gave her the title of being his “number one girl” and promised to marry her one day.
However, she toldThe Suntheir romance took a dark turn when he began forcing her to have group sex with him and other men as well as other women up to five times a day.
If she or other women didn’t do as they were told, Clary claimed that Kelly would beat them or get the women to beat each other up.
Clary went on to allege that Kelly would also get jealous if she was in contact with anyone other than him.
“I was talking to my friends from high school and he didn’t like that I was still talking to them. He thought that I was keeping things from him. I was just in communication with two of my girlfriends and he made me text them a very long lie, basically saying why I no longer wanted to be friends with them. And then he beat me, he abused me verbally and then he beat physically,” Clary toldThe Sun. “Then he beat me with a shoe — a size 12, Nike Air Force One shoe.”
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“He beat me all over, it felt like hours and I was covered in welts all the way from my neck down,” Clary alleged.
After the beating, Clary toldThe Sunthat Kelly later apologized “and sobbed and cried.”
Still, the abuse didn’t stop, Clary said. “Sexual abuse did happen regularly.”
Clary alleged that he continued to have control on her and Kelly’s other girlfriend Joycelyn Savage even after he went tojailin July.
“MCC [The Metropolitan Correctional Center] is on the left side of the street [of the apartment] and there’s a train that runs straight in front of the MCC in Chicago,” Clary toldThe Sun.
“So, every day he would make us go up there and stand up there and wave to him at four o’clock through the window of the jail,” Clary alleged toThe Sun.
Despite the traumatic occurrences, Clary remained supportive of Kelly in public — something she said she now regrets.
Clary toldThe Sunshe lied during her and Savage’s March 2019interviewwithGayle KingforCBS This Morning.
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“It was all because I just genuinely just loved him and I love hard,” Clary toldThe Sun.
While Clary managed to leave the relationship, she explained it won’t be easy for other women to.
“Robert has his live-in girlfriends, he has girlfriends in every city. He has flings in every city. For the most part he blackmails everyone. He makes everyone do very degrading stuff, whether on film or writing it down, he makes them sign it,” Clary alleged toThe Sun.
“I think a lot of women are ashamed or embarrassed to come out because of stuff like that because it’ll be incriminating them — there’s so much stuff,” she told the news outlet.
“It is also directly contrary to what we expect to be the proof. As with other ‘accusers’, the lack of proof and their past actions impeach them,” Greenberg adds. “In sum, Ms. Clary had a long-term consensual relationship with Mr. Kelly. It continued after he was arrested, when she was free to do as she wished.”
After several years of not seeing her loved ones, Clary wasreunitedwith her family earlier this month.
The reunion came after Clary was involved with analleged fightwith Savage inside of Kelly’s Trump Tower condo in Chicago.
After the fight, Azriel’s mom Alice confirmed to PEOPLE that her daughter was back in contact with her family.
On Jan. 13, Azriel shared aseries of sweet photosof herself posing along with her family on Instagram.
“Let the healing process begin,” Azriel began her emotional caption. “Love y’all and thank y’all ❤️I even thank everyone who follows me.. because you all believed in me when I could not believe for myself. ??? #movingontobetterdays.”
“P.S – everyone will be posting [their] own fave photos so make sure y’all follow the family! #ontherunwithazriel,” she concluded.
Azriel’s mother revealed to PEOPLE that she couldn’t be happier to reunite with her daughter.
“The battle is won because she’s still here, she’s still alive, she’s still breathing and though she lost a few years of her life, she’s still here to tell her story,” Alice said. “Because I chose not to keep her secluded in her life, she’s here now and we’re able to say the victory is won because she finally came to her senses.”
Kelly is currently being held without bail in federal prison in Chicago after being arrested on several sex crime charges, including child pornography, racketeering and obstruction of justice in both Illinois and New York, PEOPLEpreviously reported. He pleaded not guilty to all of those charges.
source: people.com
