R. Kelly’s Alleged Victim Denies Being Held Captive, Releases Video [Watch]

The R. Kelly saga is playing out more and more like a segment of one of his “Trapped in the Closet” stories.

According to TMZ on Tuesday (Jul 18), the unnamed accuser has identified herself as  Joycelyn Savage, contacted the site to let everyone know that she was “fine” and not being held against her will.

During the semi-weird video, Savage states that she chose not to speak to her parents for the last five to six months due to their “controlling ways,” Savage also states that this is her choice, not R. Kelly’s.

“I just mainly want to say that I am in a happy place with my life, I’m not being brainwashed or anything like that. It just came to a point where it definitely has gotten out of hand. I just want everybody to know—my parents and everybody in the world—that I am totally fine. I’m happy where I’m at, and everything is okay with me. I haven’t spoken to them in about five to six months, on and off,” she says in the vid. “They’ll text me from time to time, but I haven’t really wanted to speak to them because of what they’re doing.”

Although Savage denies being held captive, she refuses to disclose her location and also declines to comment on whether she was staying with other roommates or whether she was free to go when she pleased.

As previously reported, according to an investigative piece published by Buzzfeed on Monday (Jul. 17), the parents of an unidentified 19-year-old female have accused R. Kelly of holding their daughter against her will. According to the parents, they introduced their child to Kelly in hopes that he would make their child’s aspirations of being musician come true. After meeting the superstar backstage as a family at one of his shows in 2015 and felt confident after discussing her future.

“In the back of our minds, we were thinking [my daughter] could be around him if I was with her,” the mother, referred to as J., said. “It didn’t really hit home. Even with the Aaliyah situation, now that I think about it, ‘Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number’ … but you don’t think about that. You grew up with the song, and you like the song.”

But soon after their daughter left to live with Kelly to “work” on her career, they say that they no longer heard from their daughter on a consistent basis and recall their last face to face engagement as her being “brainwashed.”

The parents of Savage have since responded to their daughter’s video via press conference stating that their goal is to get R. Kelly to release the girls he’s allegedly holding hostage.

Check out Savage’s response to the allegations and the parent’s press conference below.

 

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