R. Kelly child sex survivor details the strict,…
intimacy wasn’t just a pleasurable pastime for jailed singer R. Kelly, it was the shamed former famous person’s most well-liked “weapon” of selection, according to Reshona Landfair.
The 41-year-old mom of one, and creator of the new memoir “Who Was Watching Shorty: Reclaiming Myself from the Shame of R. Kelly’s Abuse,” out now, is coming ahead as the 14-year-old woman featured in the disgraced R&B singer’s notorious 2001 sex tape.
The foul footage, filmed in the late Nineties, exhibits R. Kelly, née Robert Sylvester Kelly, urinating on an intoxicated, nude and underage Landfair.
In a new memoir and an exclusive interview with The Post, Reshona Landfair detailed the horrible abuses allegedly suffered at the palms of R. Kelly. Evan Jenkins for NY Post
Though R. Kelly was acquitted of costs stemming from the video in 2008, he’s at the moment serving concurrent 20- and 30-year prison sentences, for racketeering and sex crimes, at the Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, North Carolina.
Representatives for the musician weren’t immediately accessible to present a remark to The Post.
His attorney, however, beforehand launched a assertion, saying, in half, “At a young age, Ms. Landfair was unfairly forced into the public eye against her will by people who were intent on destroying the reputation of R. Kelly. She did not deserve that.”
Landfair solely told The Post, despite the fact that all eyes have been on Kelly — a three-time Grammy winner — during their unlawful involvement in the early aughts, no one ever actually noticed the mental, emotional and inappropriate abuse she endured as a teen.
“It was like, everybody was watching [him], but nobody was seeing the bigger picture of what was really going on [with me],” she said.
Throughout her e book, the Chicago native, once an aspiring preteen rapper and basketball star, details the manipulative ways that Kelly — who was 30 at the onset of their sordid affair — allegedly used to remodel her into his submissive inappropriate servant when she was just 13.
Landfair, an aspiring teen rapper, alleged she was groomed and inappropriately abused by the R&B hitmaker at the age of 13. Alamy Stock Photo
“Robert used sex as a weapon of control,” writes Landfair. “He was good at it.”
In her e book, Landfair says the “Snake” singer initially launched her to cellphone sex.
“With a grown man’s confidence, he reassured me that what we were doing was natural and that my body wanted it as much as his,” says Landfair in the tome, claiming Kelly coached her on touching her non-public elements during their non-public cellphone calls.
The complete world was watching R. Kelly in that period — but no one noticed who he actually was, Landfair said. X Popy/IXO/DAPR/ZUMA Press Wire / Shutterstock
She made sure to communicate with the famous person — whom she met through her well-known aunt, Stephanie “Sparkle” Edwards — out of earshot from her dad and mom, Greg and Valerie.
Sparkle has emphatically denied having any information of the abuse in a assertion to The Post, saying, in half, “Any suggestion that I groomed, facilitated or enabled harm to my niece is untrue and deeply painful.”
“When I was informed her parents were allowing Reshona to spend unchaperoned time with R. Kelly, I immediately called the Department of Children and Family Services,” Sparkle insisted. “When the tape surfaced and the state brought charges against him in 2008, I cooperated fully and testified under oath.”
Once totally infatuated with Kelly — or “Daddy” as the teen was allegedly groomed to call him — Landfair claims that she was given a set of strict guidelines to obey.
Kelly, now in federal prison, demanded to be called “Daddy” by Landfair, she alleges. AP
“No. 1 — Don’t make eye contact with any man. No. 2 — No talking to men other than my dad or grandpa without Robert there,” she lists. “No. 3 — No calling Robert “Daddy” in entrance of people. No. 4 — Be nice but not chatty so my curiosity received’t make somebody assume I’m flirting. No. 5 — Don’t put on clothes that exhibits my cleavage or form, and put on platform sneakers to seem taller and older.”
There have been instances, of course, when Landfair wouldn’t or couldn’t cater to Kelly’s every whim — particularly inappropriately. In those circumstances, she claims the singer would power her to watch him satiate his carnal cravings with another individual.
“‘If you say no, I’m finna find someone else who’ll say yes,’” she recollects Kelly threatening. “I can be replaced.”
The stress was always on Landfair to carry out, she writes — or else Kelly would power her to watch him with somebody who may meet his sick calls for, she said. Evan Jenkins for NY Post
“It was horrible to be forced to watch someone else’s naked body do what I refused to,” Landfair continues in the e book, including that the indecent encounters often occurred in Kelly’s Chicago recording studio space. “When they came in, they were often blindfolded so they couldn’t see me. I was his secret, and he didn’t want someone to be able to identify me.”
Landfair says she sometimes was tasked with doing more than watching.
“Sometimes, after I watched, he would force me to join and have me perform a sex act with the blindfolded person as a test,” she writes in her memoir. “It always felt like a test that I had better pass the first time.”
Most of the indecent encounters have been said to have occurred at R. Kelly’s studio space in Chicago, a web site revered by followers — but hiding a sick secret. Getty Images
Kelly, according to Landfair, also had a penchant for filming almost all of their inappropriate actions. She says he satisfied her that the videotapes have been being made for her own good. But in actuality, the “I Believe I Can Fly” performer used them to scare the teen into silence.
“‘Am I right that you don’t want nobody to see a tape of you sexing me up?’” Landfair remembers being requested. “‘These tapes will be like motivation for you to keep our secret. For you to never forget and let something slip by accident. Because you don’t want nobody to see tapes of your t—ties or anything, do you?’”
A shaken Landfair never disclosed the details of her inappropriate relationship to her dad and mom, mates or Aunt Sparkle — not until that vile video leaked in the early 2000s, triggering Kelly’s six-year child pornography trial. He was finally discovered “not guilty” after Landfair refused to testify during the court proceedings.
But she tells The Post that as horrific as it was being Kelly’s secret lover, the hitmaker often balanced out the sourness with some sweetness.
“Not everything could be bad because then I could possibly lash out [against him],” said Landfair, whom Kelly gifted a car, a pet, and a few unique getaways throughout their 13-year entanglement. She formally parted methods with Kelly at age 26 in 2009. “I was pacified with certain things.”
“There have been highs and lows.“
But Landfair, now an advocate for abuse survivors, warns against being placated with dear purchases.
“Robert would treat me to nice things: shopping sprees, dinners out, going to the movies or some other fun thing, the latest sneakers, jewelry,” she says in the tome. “Somewhere inside of me, I believed that a relationship was kind of like hazing. You grit your teeth and cry your way through the bad stuff to reap the good stuff.”
“I gave Robert all that I was. He gave me his crumbs,” Landfair groans. “And every crumb had a receipt.”
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