“I was not having sex with [Kelly] at 17,” she said. “When I first met Robert, my parents told me to lie about my age. So when I met him he thought that I was 18. On top of that, when I was 17, my parents were actually making me—trying to get me to take photos with him, take sexual videos with him, all kinds of stuff . . . And they said because if they ever have to blackmail him, what they’re trying to do now, they can use it against him, which is exactly what they're doing.”

“Everything that she’s saying is true,” Savage said. “Our parents are basically out here just to get money and they're scamming . . . Because they didn’t agree on what happened, you know, with music or where we could be. And they’re just very upset.”

Clary claimed both her parents had sent threats to her and Kelly, claiming they would spread around nude photos of her if Kelly didn’t send them tens of thousands of dollars. “You’re trying to solicit me like I’m some kind of fucking ho,” she said. “I’m not; I’m your child.”

“Exactly,” Savage added.

King noted to Clary that she appeared emotional; at that point, she had begun to cry. When asked why she was so upset, Clary said, “I’m crying because you guys don’t know the truth. You guys are believing some fucking facade that our parents are saying. This is all fucking lies for money, and if you can’t see that, you’re ignorant and you’re stupid as fuck because you want to be. All because that’s the world we live in—negativity sells, gossip is what sells, rumor are what sell.” King countered that the Kelly story is more than rumors; it’s decades of allegations. But Clary said, “We’re not here to talk about decades; we’re here to talk about what our parents are doing right now. And what they’re doing right now is all for money.”

Kelly, meanwhile, is back in jail, the morning show noted, after court officers in Chicago arrested him following a hearing over his unpaid child-support bills. Kelly claimed that several people have been stealing his money, and that as a result, he recently went to Bank of America to move his money to a new account. The singer said he was prepared to pay around $50,000 to secure his release, but was unable to secure the more than $161,000 he owes in child support. He expects to be able to get the funds together by next week.

“How can I pay child support?” he asked King, beginning to shout. “How? If my ex-wife is destroying my name and I can’t work. How can I work? How can I get paid? How can I take care of my kids? How? Use your common sense! . . . Not once have I ever had a domestic-violence call at the house and all this, that, and the other. It never happened.”

Kelly’s ex-wife, Andrea Kelly, has also accused Kelly of abuse. In the Lifetime docuseries Surviving R. Kelly, she said that when reading the National Domestic Violence Hotline’s list of abuse criteria, she realized “there was only two things on that list that Robert hadn’t done to me. And that’s when it became real to me, like, ‘’Drea, you’re being abused.’”

Faced with his ex-wife’s claims, Kelly responded by saying she was lying.

“Somebody sent me something on my phone and it said that I hogtied her,” he told King. “I don't know how to hogtie people. Why would I hogtie her? My kids is listening to this, all of this nonsense and I ain’t been able to spend no time with them. This is real. This is not a lie. What kind of woman would tear down a dad who’s trying to have a relationship with their kids? You know how many kids need a relationship with their father?”

Andrea Kelly’s attorney declined to comment for CBS This Morning’s story. Kelly has pleaded not guilty to the newest charges of sexual abuse against him, allegations regarding four women—three of whom were allegedly underage at the time. Detroit police are also now investigating Kelly for a new, separate underage-sex claim that allegedly occurred in 2001.

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