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R Kelly’s daughter to front new documentary about disgraced musician
R Kelly’s daughter Joanne will speak out about her disgraced father in a new documentary.The feature-length documentary features “raw and emotional” interviews with Joanne and her siblings Jaah Kelly and Robert Kelly Jr as well as their mother Drea Kelly, who was married to R Kelly from 1996 to 2009. Together, they speak about the “dark reality of living in the shadow of one of the most notorious figures in music.”“Nobody wants to be the child of the father that is out here hurting women and children,” Joanne says in the film’s trailer.“He knows exactly why we can’t have the relationship that we would have liked to have with him,” she says, tearfully adding: “He was my everything.”The film’s official logline says that in the film, Joanne will share “a heartbreaking secret that shattered her childhood and changed her forever.”“For a long time, I didn’t even want to believe that it happened,” she continues in the trailer.