Porsha Williams is giving details about her alleged sexual encounter with R. Kelly in her new memoir, The Pursuit of Porsha.
She recounts at the age of 25 she found herself at the Chicago mansion of the now disgraced R&B singer. She was invited to his in home studio while she was in Las Vegas. However, she says that when she arrived she was not escorted to the studio but to his bedroom instead.
Once in the bedroom, she says she was there for hours. When R. Kelly finally arrived, Porsha says she felt obligated to have sex with him because she had put herself in that position.
"It’s not just that he was R. Kelly. It’s just in my life at that moment, it was just yet another man in the same position doing the exact same thing taking advantage of me.”
Porsha was based out of Atlanta but says she went to that Chicago mansion on more than one occasion. She discusses her last time, saying this time there were like 20-30 women present. R. Kelly picked the women he wanted to be with but Porsha was not one of them.
That was a wake-up call of sorts, she said, as she asked herself: “What is my life?” It got worse. She said she heard screaming and what sounded like a woman being beaten, allegedly coming from one of the women Kelly did pick. She demanded to leave.
“When I got home ... I knew I had hit a wall,” she said. “I was completely traumatized, completely confused about why this was now happening to me again as a grown woman.”
Porsha says R. Kelly tried to contact her many times after that but told him she was done.
She was able to avoid him until she came face to face with him back in 2015. At the time, she was a co-host on Dish Nation. R. Kelly was a guest. She had to interview and even sang with him. To get her through it, she recalls just putting on a mask and playing the role. R. Kelly on the other hand acted like he didn't know her and even tried to hit on her.
A few years later, the FBI contacted her amid all of the allegations. She kept the entire experience a secret until her book.
Pursuit of Porsha is available wherever books are sold.
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