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Real Housewives of Atlanta star Porsha Williams gave details about encounters with R Kelly from over a decade ago while pursuing a music career. She said she met a friend of the star’s when she was 25 that had her flown to Chicago to meet him but instead was taken to his home and left in his bedroom for hours. When he eventually showed up in the room, he asked her to disrobe. At that point she said in her memoir, “I’ve already put myself in this position. This is what you’re supposed to do. You have to. There is no turning back.” Kelly’s lawyer Thomas A. Farinella declined to speak on the issue.
She also detailed two other instances of meeting him where she said she heard another woman being beaten in another room. And it’s something she said she kept to herself for years. “It’s not something you want to tell your mom, because my mom is a very strong woman and she did her very best in raising me,” says Williams. “And I think for any woman or man who’s been in an abusive situation, you don’t want to tell your parents because you don’t want them to think that they had let you down in any way. I don’t want her to think that she had done anything wrong. And so I took it upon myself.”
The whole story ended up being shared by her with investigators. “I realized it was my opportunity to help anyone who’s been hurt by him,” she tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue. “There had been so many other instances where I had been abused by men that my mentality [at that time] was of an abused person, and that it was okay for me to be treated like that.”
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