![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/1564761566819.jpg&operation=CROP&offset=0x52&resize=3820x2145.jpeg\" "\\"R")
<\/div>Over the last year, as singer R Kelly was accused of emotionally abusing women and having sex with underage girls, his two live-in girlfriends came out repeatedly to support him, speaking in his defense on national television and appearing in court, seated on the benches behind him.<\/p>\n
This weekend, one of those women said that she was a victim, too.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
In a series of posts on the subscription website Patreon, Joycelyn Savage, 24, described treatment at Kelly\u2019s hands that was strikingly similar to other accusations against him: He controlled when she ate, bathed and used the bathroom. He decided with whom she could speak. Once, when she didn\u2019t address him as \u201cDaddy\u201d or \u201cMaster,” she said, he choked her until she blacked out.<\/p>\n
Kelly, 52, arrested earlier this year, is in jail facing numerous state and federal charges including child pornography, sexual assault, obstruction of justice and racketeering. After decades of rumors and accusations, his behavior was put under renewed scrutiny in January, with the premiere of the Lifetime documentary \u201cSurviving R Kelly.\u201d Several of the women featured in the film described treatment similar to what Savage said she experienced.<\/p>\n
Kelly\u2019s lawyer, Steve Greenberg, has insisted that Kelly is innocent of all the accusations against him. He did not respond to a request for comment Sunday, but gave a statement to Variety accusing Savage of attacking Kelly because he could no longer financially support her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cObviously if she were to tell the truth, no one would pay, so she has, unfortunately, chosen to regurgitate the stories and lies told by others for her own personal profit,\u201d Greenberg told the publication.<\/p>\n
In her posts, Savage said she met Kelly at a concert in 2015 when she was 19. She wanted to be a singer and model, and he told her he would make her famous. \u201cBaby girl,\u201d she recalled him saying, \u201cyou are going to be the next Aaliyah.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 1994, when he was 27, Kelly reportedly married Aaliyah, his musical prot\u00e9g\u00e9 who was just 15 at the time. The marriage was annulled. (Aaliyah died in a plane crash in 2001.)<\/p>\n
Savage said that she moved in with Kelly and dropped out of college. But after a few months, the attention he lavished on her changed. He would yell if she didn\u2019t call him \u201cMaster\u201d or \u201cDaddy.\u201d She said that when she showered, one of Kelly\u2019s assistants would stand by the door. He disconnected her phone.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had bruises around my neck,\u201d she wrote of the time he choked her, \u201cand I was told by him to wear a turtle necks or a scarf to cover them up whenever he would take me out in public. I was frightened to tell anyone about this because of what he may do next. His assistant didn\u2019t even care, and especially the other girls they were in for the money as well.\u201d<\/p>\n In 2008, Kelly stood trial on child pornography charges in connection with a video that showed him having sex with and urinating on a girl prosecutors said was barely a teenager. She and her immediate family refused to testify, and he was acquitted on all counts. Federal prosecutors have accused Kelly of bribing the girl\u2019s family to keep them quiet, and a lawyer for that girl \u2014 today a woman in her 30s \u2014 has said she is now cooperating with federal investigators.<\/p>\n In a chilling echo of those earlier accusations, Savage said that \u201cRobert always had a fetish\u201d for urinating on women and girls, and that he had done it to her \u201cnumerous\u201d times.<\/p>\n There was no indication that the posts were written by someone other than Savage, but she did not respond to a request for comment to authenticate the material. Gerald Griggs, a lawyer representing her parents, who have insisted that she was being held in what they have described as emotional and sexual captivity, said in an emailed statement Sunday:<\/p>\n \u201cThe family is concerned about the allegations made by the social media account purported to be that of Joycelyn Savage. Numerous facts detailed by the account confirm the abuse and coercion that the family has alleged for two and a half years. We are attempting to make contact with Joy and the family is ready to welcome her back with love and open arms.\u201d<\/p>\n In 2017, she recorded a video published on the celebrity news website TMZ in which she said she was fine and \u201cnot being brainwashed.\u201d In one of her Patreon posts, Savage said that she was told what to tell TMZ, and that Kelly\u2019s assistant \u201cwould starve me for days at a time until I learned it right word for word.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n When police went to Kelly\u2019s Chicago apartment in January to check on Savage and Azriel Clary, Kelly\u2019s other live-in girlfriend, officers reported back that the women told them they were fine and staying there voluntarily. In March, they defended Kelly on \u201cCBS This Morning,\u201d telling the anchor Gayle King that their parents were simply trying to squeeze the singer for money. King noted on air that Kelly had agreed not to be present for the women\u2019s interview, but that off-camera he would \u201ccough very loudly,\u201d and that the women were \u201ccertainly aware that he was there.\u201d<\/p>\n It was unclear Sunday whether either woman was still living with Kelly, and Clary has not made any public statements.<\/p>\n Savage indicated she would be posting more of her account on Patreon, a site that pays contributors based on the number of reader subscriptions, which begin at $3 per month, they attract. As of Sunday evening, Savage had nearly 1 600 subscribers.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In her third post, Savage said she had twice become pregnant by Kelly, whose full name is Robert S Kelly. Both times, she said, she had an abortion. \u201cIt\u2019s scary having your first child and aborting them because of some monster that kept me as a prisoner,\u201d she wrote. After one of her abortions, she said, \u201cRobert decided to gift me with getting my breast done.\u201d<\/p>\n Throughout her posts, she explained why she kept staying with Kelly despite all his mistreatment: a combination of delusion, fear, financial security and the hope that he would make good on his promise to jump-start her career.<\/p>\n \u201cI kept thinking to myself he just wants me to be safe, he wants the best for me he thinks someone is going to take me away from him,\u201d she wrote. \u201cBut it was me being delusional.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Why would someone who claimed to love me, she added, \u201ckeep me locked up like some damn animal.\u201d<\/p>\n The New York Times<\/b><\/p>\n <\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/media-reference:1e541bdf546f494d97af639d658b5341.jpg\")
\n <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n