'Surviving R. Kelly: The Final Chapter,' a documentary series about American superstar R. Kelly, has revealed more trauma suffered by his victims.
According to HipHopdx, The Final Chapter premiered on Monday and Tuesday nights and focused on R. Kelly's abuse of Azriel Clary, who testified against him in his racketeering and sex trafficking trial in 2021.
Clary accused the imprisoned singer of forcing her to eat her own feces in 2020, calling it a disgusting act he forced girls to perform as a ritual to prove their loyalty.
Following the series premiere in 2019, the episodes documented the following trials and the entire fallout that occurred against the embattled singer following the first part of allegations.
It also revealed more disturbing allegations against R. Kelly, such as physically abusing his ex-girlfriend Azriel Clary.
“Azriel, she was on the tour bus. They were in the back room. And I heard him hitting her — spanking as he calls it,” an undisclosed survivor said.
“There was another incident where Robert made one of the girls, or a couple of the girls, eat his faeces. That was more of a loyalty type of ritual when they had to eat the faeces.”
The first of the two episodes disclosed her testimony, where she detailed how R. Kelly had instructed her how to lie during a combative interview with Gayle King.
Additionally, the latest episodes revealed there had allegedly been a sex tape involving the late Aaliyah, with a survivor describing how she was allegedly assaulted after discovering it.
“I see this basket full of tapes, and I’m like, ‘Well, maybe I’ll just grab one of these tapes, and let me go in the other rooms and see if there’s a VHS so I can watch a movie,’ because I was bored,” a woman by the name of Ebonié Doyle said. “That’s when I discovered that he’d been lying to me about Aaliyah.
“The tape that I put in was of him and Aaliyah together. What I saw on that tape was he and Aaliyah being intimate. They were on the tour bus, and everything that I had asked him was confirmed on the tape.”
R. Kelly was found guilty on nine counts in New York, including racketeering, transporting individuals across state lines for illegal sexual activity, coercion and enticement and the transportation of a minor. He was sentenced to 30 years.
He then faced trial again in his hometown of Chicago, where he was convicted of child pornography charges by a federal jury in September.
He still faces pending criminal charges in Minnesota, which have largely remained on hold during the pendency of his federal cases.