{"id":1175644,"date":"2022-08-12T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/12\/r-kellys-fiancee-joycelyn-savage-writes-tell-all-book-on-life-in-his-shadow\/"},"modified":"2022-08-12T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T08:30:00","slug":"r-kellys-fiancee-joycelyn-savage-writes-tell-all-book-on-life-in-his-shadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/12\/r-kellys-fiancee-joycelyn-savage-writes-tell-all-book-on-life-in-his-shadow\/","title":{"rendered":"R. Kelly\u2019s \u2018fianc\u00e9e\u2019 Joycelyn Savage writes tell-all book on life in his \u2018shadow\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\" style=\"line-height: 2; letter-spacing: -0.5px;font-size: 18px;\">\n<p>                        <!--p class=\"ky_saved_articles_link\"><span class=\"ky_saved_articles_hide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"ky_saved_articles_img\" alt=\"R. Kelly\u2019s \u2018fianc\u00e9e\u2019 Joycelyn Savage writes tell-all book on life in his \u2018shadow\u2019\" title=\"R. Kelly\u2019s \u2018fianc\u00e9e\u2019 Joycelyn Savage writes tell-all book on life in his \u2018shadow\u2019\"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>R. Kelly\u2019s longtime live-in girlfriend \u2014 and now\u00a0alleged fianc\u00e9e\u00a0\u2014 Joycelyn Savage is set to release a tell-all book about her relationship with the troubled R&#038;B star.<\/p>\n<p>In an email to The Post, Savage, 26, confirmed the book will be called \u201cLove and Joy of Robert\u201d and \u201cshould be published on Saturday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll I can say is that it is about Robert, the beginning of my life in Robert\u2019s shadow, where things began to take off, and where they are currently going,\u201d she wrote about the book\u2019s contents.<\/p>\n<p>Savage would neither confirm nor deny to The Post that she and Kelly \u2014 whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly \u2014 are engaged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything will be answered in my book,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-77-1024x682.png\" alt=\"R. Kelly\u2019s \u2018fianc\u00e9e\u2019 Joycelyn Savage writes tell-all book on life in his \u2018shadow\u2019\" class=\"wp-image-10032151273\"   title=\"R. Kelly\u2019s \u2018fianc\u00e9e\u2019 Joycelyn Savage writes tell-all book on life in his \u2018shadow\u2019\"\/><figcaption>Azriel Clary and Joycelyn Savage leave an arraignment for singer R. Kelly in Chicago in July 2019.<br \/>Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Savage did not reveal whether the book would be self-published or through an established publishing house, or where the tome would be available.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-78-1024x682.png\" alt=\"R. Kelly\u2019s \u2018fianc\u00e9e\u2019 Joycelyn Savage writes tell-all book on life in his \u2018shadow\u2019\" class=\"wp-image-10032151275\"   title=\"R. Kelly\u2019s \u2018fianc\u00e9e\u2019 Joycelyn Savage writes tell-all book on life in his \u2018shadow\u2019\"\/><figcaption>R. Kelly appears at a 2019 hearing.<br \/>POOL\/AFP via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In documents obtained by The Post in July, Savage penned a letter to a federal judge, referring to herself as Kelly\u2019s fianc\u00e9e and asking that he receive a more lenient sentence for his\u00a0decades-long sexual abuse\u00a0of women and underage girls and boys. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in the sex trafficking case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m writing this letter in support of Robert in advance of his sentencing, so I can explain to the court that I\u2019m not the victim that the government has portrayed me to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She continued to call him an \u201call-around incredible person\u201d and \u201cnot the monster that the government has described him to be.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"744\" height=\"495\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1660312497_293_image-82.png\" alt=\"R. Kelly\u2019s \u2018fianc\u00e9e\u2019 Joycelyn Savage writes tell-all book on life in his \u2018shadow\u2019\" class=\"wp-image-10032151283\"   title=\"R. Kelly\u2019s \u2018fianc\u00e9e\u2019 Joycelyn Savage writes tell-all book on life in his \u2018shadow\u2019\"\/><figcaption>Joycelyn Savage has written a tell-all book about her relationship with R. Kelly. \u201cEverything will be answered in my book,\u201d she said.<br \/>NY Post composite<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cRobert and I are deeply in love and it breaks my heart that the government has created a narrative that I\u2019m a victim,\u201d Savage continued. \u201cI\u2019m a grown woman and can speak for myself which is why I wanted to provide this letter to the court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is a great man, with a great heart and deserves to be home with his loved ones who are ready to support him,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Savage would be Kelly\u2019s third marriage. In 1994\u00a0he secretly married\u00a0a then-15-year-old Aaliyah, who later died in a plane crash in 2001. Their illegal marriage was annulled. He later was married to choreographer Andrea Kelly from 1996 to 2009, and the couple had three kids.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-79-1024x682.png\" alt=\"R. Kelly\u2019s \u2018fianc\u00e9e\u2019 Joycelyn Savage writes tell-all book on life in his \u2018shadow\u2019\" class=\"wp-image-10032151277\"   title=\"R. Kelly\u2019s \u2018fianc\u00e9e\u2019 Joycelyn Savage writes tell-all book on life in his \u2018shadow\u2019\"\/><figcaption>R. Kelly and Aaliyah are shown in a still from the Lifetime documentary \u201cSurviving R. Kelly.\u201d<br \/>LIFETIME\/\u201dSurviving R. Kelly\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Savage\u2019s parents, Jonjelyn and Timothy, have been publicly pleading for their daughter to leave Kelly. They were interviewed in-depth in the six-part tell-all series\u00a0\u201cSurviving R. Kelly: Part II: The Reckoning\u201d\u00a0in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019,\u00a0Savage posted on Instagram\u00a0that she would tell \u201cmy story,\u201d adding\u00a0in a follow-up post, \u201c\u202aI have Partnered up with @Patreon where I will post daily chapters of my story. Things I am going to reveal that was sweared not to see the day of light \u2014 by NDA. I am risking my life for many others.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-80-1024x682.png\" alt=\"R. Kelly\u2019s \u2018fianc\u00e9e\u2019 Joycelyn Savage writes tell-all book on life in his \u2018shadow\u2019\" class=\"wp-image-10032151279\"   title=\"R. Kelly\u2019s \u2018fianc\u00e9e\u2019 Joycelyn Savage writes tell-all book on life in his \u2018shadow\u2019\"\/><figcaption>R. Kelly appears at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse in Chicago, Illinois, in 2019.<br \/>POOL\/AFP via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In her Patreon posts,\u00a0according to Essence, Savage acknowledged that she was manipulated by Kelly.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"671\" height=\"1023\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-81.png\" alt=\"R. Kelly\u2019s \u2018fianc\u00e9e\u2019 Joycelyn Savage writes tell-all book on life in his \u2018shadow\u2019\" class=\"wp-image-10032151280\"   title=\"R. Kelly\u2019s \u2018fianc\u00e9e\u2019 Joycelyn Savage writes tell-all book on life in his \u2018shadow\u2019\"\/><figcaption>Joycelyn Savage confirmed the book will be called \u201cLove and Joy of Robert\u201d<br \/>Joycelyn Savage\/Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She reportedly discussed meeting Kelly when she was 15 at a concert and later dropping out of college to live with him. She claimed that Kelly would tell her, \u201cBaby girl, you are going to be the next Aaliyah.\u201d However, her account has been removed from Patreon.<\/p>\n<p>In July, Kelly\u00a0was\u00a0convicted on nine charges, including racketeering and violating the Mann Act, which bars interstate transportation of women and girls for \u201cimmoral purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/r-kellys-fiancee-joycelyn-savage-writes-tell-all-book-on-life-in-his-shadow\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R. Kelly\u2019s longtime live-in girlfriend \u2014 and now\u00a0alleged fianc\u00e9e\u00a0\u2014 Joycelyn Savage is set to release a tell-all book about her relationship with the troubled R&#038;B star. In an email to The Post, Savage, 26, confirmed the book will be called \u201cLove and Joy of Robert\u201d and \u201cshould be published on Saturday.\u201d \u201cAll I can say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1175646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1720,2896,23167,21871,696,792,15474,23168,4955],"class_list":["post-1175644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-book","tag-fiancee","tag-joycelyn","tag-kellys","tag-life","tag-savage","tag-shadow","tag-tellall","tag-writes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}