Kitti Jones left her home and career for a relationship with the R&B idol R. Kelly. That’s when she says the abuse began. Now she’s speaking out.

Surprisingly, Jones – a popular DJ for Dallas hip-hop and R&B station 97.9 The Beat – wasn’t in the audience. She’d been into Kelly since she was a teen in the early 1990s, when she’d hide in her room with his music to escape her mother’s tumultuous romantic relationships. She’d buy every magazine he was in and, upon the release of his 1993 solo debut, 12 Play, took a limo to a third-row seat at her first Kelly show. She’d seen him in concert seven times since. “He was my Brad Pitt,” she says.

Read the full story (source): Surviving R. Kelly: Former Girlfriend Alleges Abuse – Rolling Stone