Porsha Williamsis speaking out about her encounters with convicted sex-trafficker R. Kelly.
Back in September, Kelly, 54, was found guilty of nine counts of racketeering and sex trafficking charges after several victims came forward to describe the horrifying abuse they endured at the hands of the “Ignition” singer.
The Real Housewives of Atlanta alum, 40, is now opening up about her own sexual experiences with Kelly in her upcoming bombshell memoir, The Pursuit of Porsha: How I Grew Into My Power and Purpose.
The mother-of-one details how she met the former R&B artist, the nature of their relationship, and why she chose to report her experience to investigators.
Williams claims in her book that she first met Kelly back in 2007 after meeting a friend of his. Hoping to pursue a career in music, the then-25-year-old flew out to Chicago to meet with the singer about possibly working together.
Instead of being brought to the disgraced star’s recording studio, she was driven to his home, and briefly introduced to Kelly before someone led her to his bedroom, where she was left alone to wait for hours.
Williams claimed that Kelly eventually joined her in the bedroom, where he demanded she take off her clothes.
“I’ve already put myself in this position,” she writes in the memoir, per People. “This is what you’re supposed to do. You have to. There is no turning back.”
She also revealed that she met with the singer two more times after the first encounter, before she eventually left for good after waking up to the sound of a woman being beaten in another room.
Williams explains in her pages that she had been abused in previous relationships before Kelly, so she decided to report her experience to the authorities.
“I realized it was my opportunity to help anyone who’s been hurt by him,” she told People. “There had been so many other instances where I had been abused by men that my mentality [at that time] was of an abused person, and that it was okay for me to be treated like that."
However, Williams admitted that she kept her experience a secret for years, even from her own mother.
“I think for any woman or man who’s been in an abusive situation, you don’t want to tell your parents because you don’t want them to think that they had let you down in any way,” she said. “I don’t want her to think that she had done anything wrong. And so I took it upon myself.”
“But I was glad when I did [tell her],” she continued. “She was glad that I told her and we talked about it. She told me some of her experiences and we just talked about how this should be told so other women don’t have to go through it.”
The RHOA alum’s book, The Pursuit of Porsha: How I Grew Into My Power and Purpose will be available on November 30.
