Several more women have spoken out against R. Kelly, levying allegations of sexual abuse in new reports from BuzzFeed News (by Jim DeRogatis and Marisa Carroll) and The Washington Post (by Geoff Edgers). Two women spoke with BuzzFeed News; six women, two of whom had not previously discussed their relationships with Kelly publicly, spoke with The Washington Post.

One woman who spoke with BuzzFeed News detailed what she says was an abusive relationship that took place from 1995 to 1999, beginning when she was 17 years old and he was 28. The other woman told Buzzfeed News that her daughter has been “brainwashed” as part of Kelly’s alleged “cult” in which he reportedly manipulates women’s lives.

41-year-old Lizzette Martinez told Buzzfeed News that during her four-year relationship with Kelly, he pressured her into sex, hit her five times, and gave her mononucleosis, which resulted in her hospitalization. She also said that he asked her to get an abortion when she became pregnant with his child. (She later miscarried.)

Martinez described how R. Kelly controlled their relationship, including, “what I wore, how I spoke, who my friends were, who I could bring around.” She told Buzzfeed, “I did these things, and I felt like it was always—he was directing stuff. You know, it felt really weird. He was really overbearing.... I’m like, ‘I don't want to do that.’ But he has a way with people, with women. He’s just so controlling, so abusive.”

Recalling the times that R. Kelly allegedly physically abused her, Martinez told Buzzfeed News, “Then he’s a nice guy afterward: ‘I love you. I’m sorry. You know, I’m going to help you. I’m going to do everything for you, but you have to listen to me.’ It was always I wasn’t listening to him. You know, a typical domestic abusive relationship, and this was, like, my first relationship in my life.”

Later, Martinez reaffirmed the “cult” allegations against. R. Kelly: “My purpose of telling this story is this has gone on for years. This is not new, this ‘cult’ thing.”

The second woman, who Buzzfeed News identified only as Michelle, said that her 27-year-old daughter, who Buzzfeed News identified only as N., began her relationship with Kelly when she was 17—the age of consent in Illinois. Michelle says that when she’s tried to call her daughter she has to go through Kelly. She recalls, “And one time I asked him—he FaceTimed me, and I said, ‘Why you ain’t letting my daughter come home?’ And he was like, ‘She don’t want to come home.’” She says she has not spoken to N. in three months.

In July 2009, Michelle called local Illinois police to see if N. was at R. Kelly’s mansion, as Buzzfeed News reports. The police chief told a local newspaper at the time, “(We) were informed of a possible criminal matter. We investigated the issues, found there to be no crime, and the matters have been closed.” Jerhonda Pace, who previously told her story of living with Kelly, corroborated the incident to Buzzfeed News, recalling that Kelly told her and N. to hide. He did not allow police into his home.

The two women who broke their silence to The Washington Post were Tracy Sampson and Patrice Jones, who both allege that Kelly began sexual relationships with them when they were underage. Sampson said that she was 16 years old when she met R. Kelly for the first time in 1999. She was an intern at Epic Records. “Being so much older [now], I see how wrong stuff was and how ultimately gross and pedophile-ish it was, but that’s something you have to have your adult brain process,” she told the Post.