R. Kelly’s Daughter Claims Father’s Sexual Abuse Sent Her To A “Psych Ward”

R. Kelly‘s daughter, Buku Abi, claims and says her father’s abuse led her to a “psych ward.” Buku claims to have been molested by the disgraced singer when she was 8. After years of sexual abuse, the woman, who is now 26, stated that she had tried to take her own life to deal with the pain. Abi, née Joann Kelly, detailed her experience in the new documentary, R. Kelly’s Karma: A Daughter’s Journey, saying, “For a long time I was in a really hard space mentally and so I ended up in a mental hospital, a psych ward, whatever you want to call it…I hit a point in my life where, multiple times, I had tried to take my own life. When she was 10-years-old, Joann revealed the hardships to her mother, Andrea Kelly, telling her that she was mentally unwell due to the abuse. The aspiring singer explained that her mother had seen other signs of her daughter being unwell, recalling a moment when Andrea discovered slashes along her wrists.

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