Kitti Jones quit career for a relationship with R kelly. Before the abuse started.She is now speaking out

Kitti Jones had been wishing for
this moment for years.

It was June 2011, and R. Kelly had
just performed to a frenetic crowd
at the Verizon Theatre outside
Dallas, in Texas. It had been nearly
two decades since the singer's
raunchy lyrics and honeyed voice
turned him into a RnB superstar
and sex symbol. But despite
multiple controversies over his
alleged sexual relationships with
underage girls

In February 2002, A reporter and music critic for the chicago Sun Times , anonymously
received a now-infamous 26-
minute video and passed it on to
the police. The tape allegedly
shows R kelly telling a girl to call him
"daddy" and urinating in her mouth.
The girl's aunt told the paper that
the girl had only been 14. "It's crap,
and that's how we're going to treat
it," R Kelly told a Chicago TV station
at the time. He was indicted four months later on multiple child pornography
charges and faced up to 15 years
in prison. After finally going to trial
in 2008, He was found not guilty
on all 14 counts.

According to Jones, R Kelly claimed
that he would pay her double her
salary if she moved to Chicago, but
also cautioned her on his close
relationship with women. "R kelly said,
'I have friends and I have girls I've
raised,'" but she didn't know what he meant by 'raised' at that time. He said, 'I will like you to meet them, but I want to
make sure you're mentally ready
for that.'"
She thought it was going to be a matured relationship – and in the beginning,
she was under the impression that
Kelly was monogamous. "As long
as you don't see it or find anything
suspicious, you just assume you're
the only one until it's right in your
face," she says.

Almost instantly upon moving to
Chicago, Jones says, Kelly began
governing nearly every detail of her
life, starting with the requirement
that she wear baggy sweatpants
whenever she will be going out

Kitti Jones had a career, a car, an ex-husband and a child when she was teen.

She'd been working in radio
for more than five years and was
used to being around celebrities.

Jones kept her mouth shut for a long time, but "staying silent absolutely protects your abuser,"

Jones says she never signed a
non-disclosure agreement, but that
Kelly wanted her to sign a
document that would safeguard him
from legal action. But she refused.
Jones said: "Rob is about to force me to sign a letter they typed up stating things I never did just to prevent me from ever suing him,"

Jones texted Howard on May 16th, 2013. "Please save this text … in case I ever need to prove I was forced. He is saying he needs to feel protected

she hopes people take
away from her experience, Jones
speaks in a measured yet defiant
tone. "I want them to not be so
dismissive towards the women that
are speaking out," says Jones.
"We're not just rolling over out of
bed and saying, 'Hmm, let me just
make up a story about R. Kelly
today. Let me make it sound similar
to something that he's already been
accused of and put my own remix
to it just [because] I want some
attention.' [Anyone who has spoken
out] has gotten annihilated in the
press [and] from fans.

"And then they judge people by how
they look: 'She's too old, he wouldn't go for her, this bitch is lying.' Any little thing to justify what he's doing to people," Kitti Jones continues, her voice rising. "It pisses me off that people that really did suffer and go through the things that they did and wanted to kill themselves are still ashamed, in hiding, embarrassed and just afraid overall to speak out.