Savage, 24,set the record straightin a video to TMZ on Wednesday, saying, “Please do not believe what you see and hear on social media. That is not my Instagram. Someone is impersonating me.”
“I just want everyone to know we still support him and we would never betray him. Me and Azriel will forever love him,” Savage said of Kelly’s other girlfriendAzriel Clary.
“I’m not even that kind of girl that would do something like that and betray him. I’ve been through so much with him and we have a bond that is so special that no one ever can break,” Savage said, fighting back tears.
“I would never in a million years hurt him like this. I would never do this. It’s just really really sad that somebody would pretend to be me and put it out in the world and say that I’m a victim, that I am brainwashed, I’m a sex slave — it doesn’t get worse than that,” Savage continued.
Savage went on to deny the additional claim that she has Stockholm syndrome.
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“I’m just really heartbroken for all of this that’s going on. Me and Azriel still go to the court dates. We still support him, we still see him. I just want him to come home in peace,” Savage added.
Savage made headlines last week after a post on her Instagram page directed followers to Patreon where she claimed she wouldreveal new “chapters” about her lifewith Kelly, 52.
Patreon is the paid membership platform geared toward artists and creators.
In their firstPatreon post, a person initially believed to be Savage explained how they met Kelly at one of his concerts in 2015 and how they thought he would help her with her goal of becoming a model and a singer, according toThe Hollywood Reporter, which also reported that the post claimed Savage is a “victim” of Kelly’s.
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“Robert would always look at me in a sexual way the first couple of times we met occasionally,” read the Patreon post, according toTHR.
The Patreon post went on to explain that Kelly would allegedly buy Savage clothes and give her money, and that she “had everything I needed.”
“I didn’t have nothing to worry about at the time,” the Patreon post continued, according toTHR. “We also did a couple of songs together in his studio which he promised me he would release on his platform. Which never seen the day of light, Robert told me soo many lies my 19 year old mind believed everyone of one [sic] them.”
According to the Patreon post, Savage’s relationship with Kelly reportedly changed after a few months of living with him.
The account also alleged that Kelly’s assistants would watch her constantly.
Savage had previouslydefended Kelly in an interviewwithCBS This Morning‘sGayle Kingin March.
In the interview, which she did alongside Clary, Savage said, “Our parents are basically out here just to get money and scam because they didn’t agree on what happened with music, or whatever it could be and they’re just very upset.”
The parents of both Savage and Clary have claimed the women are living with Kelly against their will and are a part of what the parents describe as his “sex cult,” although both women previously vehemently denied the singer tore them away from their now-estranged families.
Kelly iscurrently facing chargesof sex-trafficking, sexual assault and child pornography spread throughout Brooklyn, Chicago and Minneapolis.
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A month later the singer wasarrested again and indicted on federal chargesincluding child pornography, racketeering and obstruction of justice in both Illinois and New York, indictment documents and his lawyer confirmed. He has remained jailed since being denied bail.
Then in August, Kelly was charged with two sex crimes in Minnesota after allegedly paying a teen girl $200 to dance nude back in 2001.
Kelly, who was also the subject of the bombshell documentarySurviving R. Kellyearlier this year, has maintained his innocence throughout his legal troubles.
source: people.com
