“I was the first girl, and nobody believed me,” Ms. Hawkins said. “And after that it continued to happen, again and again and again.”

Episode one details the threats and harassment rained down upon the women who spoke out in the original documentary. The parents of one young woman, Faith Rodgers, said they had to move out of fear for their safety. A Kelly associate threatened to release a compromising video of Ms. Rodgers with Mr. Kelly, and she had a seizure from the stress. Another woman, Jerhonda Pace, said strangers, presumably Mr. Kelly’s fans, threatened to beat her up in a parking lot when she was out with her children. She has since moved out of Illinois.

[A timeline of the accusations against R. Kelly.]

Mr. Kelly’s brothers discuss their childhood in Chicago, including how Mr. Kelly was sexually abused by a family member and a family acquaintance.

In episode two, Ms. Hawkins shares her story on camera for the first time. Mr. Kelly used to call her the “cable girl,” because she hooked him up: She connected him to other young girls whom he had sex with, all of them, she said, between the ages of 14 and 16. He was 25 at the time. Eventually, Mr. Kelly began having sex with her, too. She later sued him and settled for $250,000. As part of the settlement, she signed a nondisclosure agreement, the first in a series of confidentiality agreements with women that kept his conduct a secret, and allowed it to continue.

On Thursday night, audiences were also introduced to some of Mr. Kelly’s former employees, including Lindsey Perryman-Dunn. She said that she did not believe the waves of allegations against him, even though she had seen the videotape at the center of his 2008 child pornography trial and believed it showed him having sex with an underage girl.

One of Mr. Kelly’s brothers, Carey Kelly, said Mr. Kelly offered him a car, a record deal and $50,000 to say that it was Carey Kelly on the tape. He refused.