It started with accusations of underage girls being brainwashed and kept in a cult and now reports of R. Kelly’s alleged lurid past are coming in thick and fast.
Last month, a woman broke her NDA to publicly accuse the singer of having sex with her when she was 16 and now she’s given a disturbing TV interview about their relationship when she was a teenager.
Jerhonda Pace told the hosts of The Real she was summoned to the singer’s tour bus and found him nude with another woman who was allegedly there to teach Pace how to pleasure Kelly.
“I went out there to his tour bus and you have him naked and you have her naked. And I’m looking like, ‘OK, what is this?’ Because Rob [Kelly] is the one who took my virginity, so I was like, ‘What’s going on?’ And he said, ‘Don’t worry about it’,” she revealed.
“I guess he saw that I was looking uneasy. I wanted to know what am I doing? That’s when he told me to look at her and [said], ‘She’s going to teach you everything you need to know. She’s going to please you.’
“He told me to remove my clothes.”
Pace, now 24 and a mother of three, said that she met the singer when she was 15 at his trial for producing child pornography. She’d been a superfan and had attended court every day to support him.
After he was found not guilty, which Pace believed to be a vindication of her idol, someone from Kelly’s team reached out to her on Myspace and the pair started to spend their weekends together at Kelly’s house and have sex.
In the interview, she said she was “physically harmed” by the singer and he would “lock her in a room for days” as punishment.
She finally escaped by telling Kelly she was going to pick up some shoes from her uncle’s house nearby.
“He was preparing for a party, at the time and I told him that I have my uncle that lives a few doors down and I wanted to go to my uncle’s house to grab some shoes and he was like ‘okay, when you get there, you get the shoes and you come right back’,” she said.
“And at that moment when I knew I got out of the house. I was like ‘I’m not going back.’ I refused.”
Her version of events is also reminiscent of what worried family members are saying happens in the alleged cult at the moment. She followed strict rules, “which included dressing in baggy clothes, turning over her phone, and asking permission to shower, eat, go to the bathroom, and leave the property. If she broke the rules, she says, she was mentally and physically abused”.
R. Kelly continues to deny the litany of allegations against him, using a representative to say he is “both alarmed and disturbed by the recent revelations attributed to him”.
“Mr. Kelly unequivocally denies such accusations and will work diligently and forcibly to pursue his accusers and clear his name,” they told TMZ.
