Azriel Clary, one in all R. Kelly’s accusers who testified at his latest trial, instructed CBS Information that the disgraced singer developed a collection of strict guidelines that he used to regulate her and different ladies. Clary opened up about her relationship with Kelly in an interview with «CBS Mornings» co-host Gayle King within the CBS Information particular, «Love Would not Damage: R. Kelly Survivor Speaks.»
«After I initially met him, I’d meet him in no matter I needed to put on, whether or not that be denims, whether or not that be, you realize, a shirt, no matter,» Clary instructed King. However finally, all of that modified, and Kelly started dictating what she may put on and far more.
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«He began to get into, ‘Okay, you possibly can solely put on sweats. Okay, you need to knock any and each single time you come out of this room. Okay, you should delete each single individual in your telephone aside from my 4 telephone numbers,'» Clary stated. She instructed King that if these guidelines weren’t adopted, Kelly would develop into bodily abusive.
Throughout Kelly’s trial, Clary testified that on one event, the singer beat her with a sneaker till she admitted she had texted a good friend about their relationship. She additionally instructed the court docket that witnessed the singer slapping and dragging different ladies by the hair in the event that they broke the foundations he set out for them. In a 2019 interview with King, Clary referred to herself as R. Kelly’s «girlfriend» and fiercely defended the R&B singer. However throughout her testimony at his trial, she stated that her solutions in that interview weren’t truthful, and that she now considers the connection to have been abusive. Kelly was discovered responsible of intercourse trafficking and racketeering fees final month and faces life in jail.»I had by no means come from an abusive family or something like that,» Clary instructed King final week. «And so, nonetheless to today, I am shocked that I’d permit a person to place his arms on me, as a result of it is simply not one thing that I had grown up experiencing.»
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Along with telling her what clothes she may put on, Clary additionally instructed King that Kelly didn’t permit her to go on social media and that for 5 years she didn’t have a look at or communicate to any man apart from Kelly.
«Males had been instructed to show round any time we walked by means of hallways or something,» Clary stated. These restrictions affected her relationship along with her household even after she received away from Kelly.»I could not look my dad in his eyes,» she stated. «I could not look my brother in his eyes. I used to be scared to hug them. I used to be scared to the touch them.»Watch the CBS Information particular «Love Would not Damage: R. Kelly Survivor Speaks» streaming on Paramount+ Monday, October 4.