*(Via UrbanHollywood411) – Lifetime’s docuseries “Surviving R. Kelly Part II: The Reckoning” concluded Saturday after new accusers detailed new allegations; R. Kelly’s brothers offered new details about rampant childhood sexual abuse in their family; and insiders alleged Kelly paid off more than a dozen girls, with the requirement that they sign non-disclosure agreements.
The docuseries premiered on Thursday, Jan. 2, and included five episodes airing over three nights. The second season debuted a year after the original six-part series premiered in January 2019, and was seen by 26.8 million viewers over multiple airings.
Since then, the franchise has brought renewed attention to the decades-long sexual abuse allegations against the R&B singer, real name Robert Kelly, leading to his arrest in July 2019.
Kelly has maintained his innocence and pleaded not guilty to federal and state charges, including sex trafficking, child pornography, obstruction of justice, and kidnapping. As the singer, 52, sits in a Chicago jail awaiting trial, his accusers detailed horrifying allegations of physical and mental abuse in Part II, and spoke of being left emotionally damaged.
Below are shocking revelations in “Surviving R. Kelly Part II: The Reckoning.”
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Several accusers and their family members who participated in the original docuseries returned to talk about the threats and intimidation they faced over the past year.
The threats started with a private screening of Surviving R. Kelly, attended by survivors in December 2018. The gathering had to be evacuated because of a gun threat.
Returning accuser Jerhonda Pace said she was attacked while visiting a shopping mall in Illinois. “They tried to physically harm me,” she explained. Pace said the threats and taunts got so bad that she moved out of the state.
Others alleged Kelly’s team tried to intimidate them. Several accusers broke down as they said nude photos taken of them when they were with the singer, have been posted on websites devoted to discrediting his accusers.
Suicide Pact
Jerhonda Pace met Kelly at age 15. She moved in with the singer and said in Surviving R. Kelly Part II that he convinced her she would have no life without him. She claimed Kelly concocted a suicide pact and convinced her that she should kill herself if he went to jail.
She said he kept a stash of “suicide” pills in a jacket pocket just in case. “‘If something happens to me, you know where the pills are,’” she alleged he told her.
Pace said she was abused when she broke Kelly’s “rules,” which included everything from going to the bathroom, to speaking to others without his permission. Yet she remained by his side and agreed to the suicide pact. “I was really ready to take my own life,” she explained. “He was everything to me.”
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