The 23-year-old sat down with Gayle King in a recent interview that had social media reeling, especially as it saw her “do a 180” from her 2019 chat with the TV personality. Last month, R Kelly was found guilty of federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges and faces a lifetime behind bars.

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During his trial, Azriel Clary testified that R Kelly began sexually abusing her when she was just 17 years old. She also alleges the star manipulated and threatened her throughout their relationship. In the CBS interview special, Azriel claimed that she was not honest in her 2019 interview with Gayle King and that her controlling boyfriend “coached” her on what to say. “Before that interview, you know, he had us practising every single day…Answering questions…And if he didn’t like our answers, he would tell us exactly what to say and how to say it,” she told the talk show host.

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In 2019, Azriel and another woman – Jocelyn Savage, who was also dating R Kelly at the time – spoke out for the first time to defend the singer and react to “misinformation”. The emotional interview was ultimately a turning point for the woman who left R Kelly just a few months afterwards. She added: “I was lost. And I felt invisible…And I gave someone that control over me, to basically make me do whatever it was that they wanted me to do and act however they wanted me to act.” “It kind of made me kind of wake up in a sense, and realise, ‘Why am I acting like this? Why am I putting myself through all of this misery? Why am I exploiting myself for a man who has me in this position in the first place, you know?’ “And I really had to come to terms and, you know, realize that it wasn’t love. Love doesn’t hurt, you know?”

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