In a raw and revealing video message posted Sunday night (June 22), R. Kelly’s longtime fiancée, Joycelyn Savage, broke a years-long silence. She unleashed a salvo of bombs that refuted years of swirling rumors, accusations, and speculation about what has or hasn’t been going on between her and the singer. She also dropped a bomb of her own: she’s planning to start a family with him.
“I’m not a victim,” declared the 29-year-old, proclaiming with unmistakable conviction and clarity to a storm of allegations her parents, Timothy and Jonjelyn Savage, have been leveling for decades. “I’ve been with Robert for 10 frickin’ years. He has been in prison for six years, and I have visited him every weekend for six years”
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In a media environment where headlines have variously identified Savage as a brainwashed follower and as a sex slave, her message was fiercely personal and deeply emotional. Savage claimed that she proposed to Kelly three years ago when he was already in jail, and he said yes. Now that the future is uncertain, the couple has visions of marriage and children.
“We’re planning on getting married. We want to have a family, and I am really excited,” she said, smiling through the situation's awkwardness.
This pronouncement lands like a thunderclap in the middle of a long and bitter war between Savage and her family. Among those accusing R Kelly in the ongoing saga of his legal difficulties have been her parents, who accused him of using “brainwashing” to control their daughter and prevent her from keeping in contact with her family. Joycelyn’s message doesn’t contradict their allegations but repudiates them.
“Please don’t believe all the lies you hear my mom and dad say all the way out here in Calabasas, California,” she said firmly. “I’m not captured. I am not a sex slave. “I’m not a brainwashed whatever; that person was told crazy lies about me.
Savage stressed that she has access to a phone and can freely contact her family, but she has chosen not to, a decision she says is borne out of years of hurt and public betrayal.
The message was undeniably emotional but concluded with a composed yet direct request for compassion and understanding. “I just want Robert to get what he deserves with the righteous however they want to deal with it,” Savage said. “Because he deserves to be out. Enough is enough. I’m tired, and he’s tired too.”
Joycelyn Savage, in short, would like people to believe her story, too a story that does not make the headlines but instead centers on love, loyalty, and a life she says she’s choosing for herself. Whether the public chooses to believe her is another story, but for now, Savage has spoken loud and clear.
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