Last week R. Kelly was jailed after falling behind $161,000 in child support. TMZ.com sources say Kelly stopped paying child support to punish his ex-wife for turning their children against him.
“Sources close to R. Kelly tell us the singer was absolutely lashing out at Drea Kelly when he quit writing child support checks … a move that ultimately landed him in Cook County jail,” TMZ.com said. “We’re told Kelly feels like he tried to maintain a relationship with his three kids, but he blames Drea for ruining any chance of that. He’s said he thinks she brainwashed them.
Also last week there were reports that a new R. Kelly sexual assault accuser had come forward claiming she slept with the R&B singer in Detroit when she was 13-years-old and that he infected her with the herpes virus when she was 17.
According to several outlets, the new accuser is willing to testify under oath.
“Listening to R. Kelly’s denials about what he did to underage girls like me was very hurtful. He needs to tell the truth and he needs to stop playing the victim,” read a statement released through the accuser’s attorney Gloria Allred in response to Kelly’s interview with Gayle King. “He was the adult and I was the child. He had no right to take advantage of me when I was only a 13-year-old child.”
The new accuser’s name has not been released.
