Andrea Kelly’s divorce from R. Kelly, the man she married in 1996 and the father of her three kids, was finalized in 2009.
But when she saw allegations against the singer reported in a July 2017 story on BuzzFeed, she felt compelled to speak out. She revealed the exact moment when she decided to make her story public during an emotional appearance on Thursday’s episode of The View, in which she broke into tears several times.
“Because it’s about saving lives,” Andrea said in reply to the first question, about the timing of her allegations, which she made public in June. “And you cannot not speak when someone’s life and what they’ve been through is parallel to yours. It’s different when you hear things and it’s like, ‘Oh, I heard it on the radio,’ or ‘I read it in a magazine,’ but it’s different when you hear words that ring true to your spirit because you’ve survived it and been through it.”
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