R. Kelly’s Ex-Girlfriend Azriel Clary Speaks Out Against Him

R. Kelly's ex-girlfriend Azriel Clary is speaking her truth.

In a bombshell interview with The Sun, the 22-year-old opened up for the first time about Kelly's alleged abuse, accusing the disgraced singer, who is currently behind bars after being charged with 18+ counts of sexual misconduct and other charges, of brainwashing, beating and sexually abusing her for years after she met him following a concert he gave in Orlando, Florida back in 2015.

The aspiring singer told the British outlet that after she became one of Kelly's five live-in girlfriends at the age of 17, she was forced to have group sex with him and other men and women up to five times a day. She said that if she, or any of the other women, didn't abide by Kelly's rules, he'd beat them up or get the women to beat each other up.

Azriel recalled a time when she was allegedly savagely beaten for hours while naked after he caught her on the phone talking to her friends from high school. "He didn't like that I was still talking to them … he thought that I was keeping things from him," she shared. “I was just in communication with two of my girlfriends and he made me text them a very long lie, basically saying why I no longer wanted to be friends with them. And then he beat me, he abused me verbally and then he beat me physically."

She continued, "he beat me with a shoe - a size 12, Nike Air Force One shoe. And he beat me all over, it felt like hours and I was covered in welts all the way from my neck down." Azriel added that when it was all over, “He had ‘Juice’, another girlfriend come in there. He already made me strip naked, but he made her run me a bathtub of warm water and he made her bathe me. Afterwards, he came in there and he apologized and sobbed and cried and he did everything to try and make me feel like he was so sincere.”

In addition to speaking about her own alleged abuse, Azriel opened up about Kelly's other victims, claiming there are many more that have yet to come forward. “I think that there's hundreds of victims out there," she said. "Robert has his live-in girlfriends, he has girlfriends in every city. He has flings in every city. There's usually three main cities in every state. So three times 50 - that lets you know how many women are probably out there and that's probably not even hitting it on the nail."

She went on to state why she believes many women have not come forward, saying, "For the most part he blackmails everyone. He makes everyone do very degrading stuff, whether on film or writing it down, he makes them sign it."

"I think a lot of women are ashamed or embarrassed to come out because of stuff like that because it'll be incriminating them - there's so much stuff," Azriel alleged. "He has letters of people saying that they've stolen from him. He has letters from people saying that they've been molested or touched by their parents or their brothers or a family member. He even has people on film molesting their younger nieces or younger brothers. And so I know a lot of women out there are too embarrassed, humiliated, and ashamed to come out because this man had that much power to control them, to make them molest their younger niece or to molest their younger brother."

A lawyer for R. Kelly reportedly told The Sun, Azriel's allegations are untrue.

As previously reported, Azriel split from Kelly earlier this year. News of their break-up came after Azriel got into a physical altercation, which was captured on Instagram Live, with Kelly's other girlfriend Joycelyn Savage. During the brawl, Azriel accused Joycelyn of sleeping with her as a minor. Joycelyn was later arrested and booked for misdemeanor battery.

Since the altercation, Azriel has reunited with her family after years of separation.

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