R Kelly’s daughter to front new documentary about disgraced musician

nme.com:

R Kelly’s daughter Joanne will speak out about her disgraced father in a new documentary.The feature-length documentary features “raw and emotional” interviews with Joanne and her siblings Jaah Kelly and Robert Kelly Jr as well as their mother Drea Kelly, who was married to R Kelly from 1996 to 2009.

Together, they speak about the “dark reality of living in the shadow of one of the most notorious figures in music.”“Nobody wants to be the child of the father that is out here hurting women and children,” Joanne says in the film’s trailer.“He knows exactly why we can’t have the relationship that we would have liked to have with him,” she says, tearfully adding: “He was my everything.”The film’s official logline says that in the film, Joanne will share “a heartbreaking secret that shattered her childhood and changed her forever.”“For a long time, I didn’t even want to believe that it happened,” she continues in the trailer. “I didn’t know that, even if he was a bad person, that he would do something to me.”“Just because you’re not a good husband doesn’t mean you can’t be a good father – and the fact that he doesn’t even try,” Drea adds. “What he did to me, he did to me.

But you didn’t have to do it to my damn kids.”Earlier this year, a federal appellate court in Chicago upheld R. Kelly‘s conviction and 20-year prison sentence for possessing child pornography and child enticement.The disgraced singer was found guilty of six of 13 counts of owning and producing child pornography and enticing a minor back in September.