Joycelyn Savage, the fiancée of incarcerated singer R Kelly, confirmed that she is five months pregnant with his child. The 26-year-old model added that Kelly’s legal team is ‘unhappy’ about it.
Sharing her sonogram, Savage told ET that she and R Kelly are having a baby girl. “I’m very excited,” she said.
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Joycelyn Savage’ statement came days after Kelly’s lawyer, Jennifer Bonjean, told E! News that she is not pregnant with the singer’s child. She had first written about ‘preparing to welcome a child’ in a short book, Love and Joy of Robert.
The 26-year-old, in the book, wrote that she felt ill and thought she had contracted COVID-19. But later learned “the most amazing news”—that she was expecting a baby.
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“It was a happy day but an incomplete time in my life. Today I am grateful to God for giving me the most precious gift. Robert is extremely excited about the news that I am having a baby and feels sad that Robert will not be able to be here with us.”
Kelly faces a trial in his hometown of Chicago on charges accusing him of rigging his 2008 child pornography trial and of enticing minors for sex.
His fiancee tole ET that “his lawyer didn’t know that prior to him going to jail, Robert and I were doing IVF because at the time I was told I couldn’t have a baby.”
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“When he got sent to prison, we paused on it and I had them freeze my eggs until I was ready. Once his lawyer did find out, she wanted me to have an abortion because she didn’t feel that now was the time for me to have a child following the 30-year sentence,” she said.
“Me and Robert wanted to have a child for a long time. He is very happy about it, his lawyer isn’t. Once I told her I was keeping my baby, she didn’t want me to announce but I wanted to share the news. I’ve always been there for him even before this new lawyer came into the picture.”