The new docu-series Surviving R. Kelly continues to elicit varied reactions, despite legal threats from the disgraced R&B singer.
The three-night, six-part special premiered on Thursday night and immediately began trending on Twitter.
The docu-series explores the disturbing sexual abuse allegations against 51-year-old entertainer.
It includes more than 50 interviews with Kelly’s brothers, his former collaborators and even his alleged victims.
Audiences had mixed reactions to the first couple of installments while others applauded producer dream hampton and her team for shedding light on this horrific story.
AALIYAH STORY
However, the mother of the late singer Aaliyah has denounced claims that her daughter had sex with the controversial crooner as an underage teenager.
Ahead of the debut of docu-series, accusations from one of R. Kelly’s former backup performers emerged. She alleged she caught the singer having sex with a then 15-year-old Aaliyah.
Now, the Try Again singer’s mother is slamming the allegations as “lies and fabrications.”
It’s been widely reported that Aaliyah and Kelly wed in a secret ceremony in 1994, but the pair never commented on the nature of their relationship.
Despite a public marriage certificate listing Aaliyah’s age as 18, since she was born in 1979, she would have been 15 at the time.
Here are some of the reactions on Twitter:
We should all thank my friend @dreamhampton for her very necessary work to create #SurvivingRKelly. These survivors deserved to be lifted up and heard. I hope it gets them closer to some kind of justice.
— John Legend (@johnlegend) January 4, 2019
If you look back at the reporting during the R Kelly-Aaliyah marriage, it was a massive failure. Zero understanding of sexual abuse. Nobody treated this seriously. It was a collective shrug #SurvivingRKelly
The #SurvivingRKelly documentary is just too much to stomach.
Those girls.
That abuse.
The silence.
😔😢
We don’t want you, Twitter users tell R.Kelly as he allegedly plans African visit
Some Africans have taken to Twitter to kick against singer, R Kelly’s alleged plan to escape to the continent following alleged sex crimes scandal.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the ‘Lean on me’ singer has been facing criticism and possible music boycott for alleged sexual abuse which were detailed in a documentary.
The documentary, `Surviving R. Kelly’ is a six-part series detailing sexual abuse allegations against R. Kelly in the U.S. It aired over three nights, from January 3 to January 5, 2019.
Featuring more than 50 interviews, the show unpacks the R & B singer’s reported two-decade history of using money and fame to sexually abuse women, oftentimes young black girls.
According to host Angela Martinez during ‘The Breakfast Club’ on Thursday, investigators received a tip from an anonymous individual, revealing the singer’s intentions to flee.
American media personality Charlemagne tha God, during the same episode of The Breakfast Club, said, “You think you can just pull up in Johannesburg and Nigeria and be welcomed with open arms?”
“They got the internet too, and they know what’s going on. His brothers in Africa will whoop him,” he said reacting to R Kelly’s alleged planned escape to Africa.
Since the news broke, Twitter users mostly Africans have warned the singer against the move.
They urged him to clear his sexual assault charges before visiting.
They also pleaded with relevant authorities to prevent him from relocating to prevent the continent from being seen as a hiding place for alleged sexual predators.
Below are some of the tweets:
@Enyakanbi said, “Running to Africa will increase his woes. He should better run to Jesus.”
@Spritfingers wrote, “Deny his passport. Freeze his accounts.”
@Nchi_feny tweeted, “We don’t want him in Africa. He should take responsibility for his actions. @rkelly you should consider running to God instead.”
@Faux_bode said, “He should not try that rubbish! Because Africa is a dumping ground abi?!”
@Preshey said, “He is not welcome in West Africa.”
@Sox_m tweeted, “He’ll be okay, we still haven’t dealt with our own perpetrators. Nikka dropping a mixtape soon even.”
@Bloss_cherry tweeted, “On behalf of Kenya, issa no from us!! We don’t want him.”
