Surviving R. Kelly’ Executive Producer Dream Hampton shared with SiriusXM’s Karen Hunter some discoveries she made during the filming of the documentary on R&B singer Robert Kelly who, for decades, has faced accusations of child and sexual abuse. “I wish that he would have gotten help,” she shared.
Dream Hampton: The things that I learned making this documentary that couldn’t make it in for legal reasons, you know, this isn’t just me on Twitter. A&E is a publicly traded company. They own Lifetime, Bunim/Murray is a production company that’s been in business as long as it has because they have a team of lawyers. So, there are so many things that I can’t talk about and will never talk about and quite frankly you don’t want to. It’s so dark and sad and traumatic. I wish that he would have gotten help. I wish that when that question that you posed Karen, about, you know, what could we have done if maybe had there been some public shaming or, or just holding his feet to the fire. Maybe he could’ve gotten help when he was 30, or you know, 29 when the Aaliyah stuff broke.
Karen Hunter: So, Aaliyah’s mom, publicly said that she is not happy about this documentary and I watched it and I didn’t see any lies there. So what do you think is the source of her discomfort other than the truth coming out?
Dream Hampton: I mean I can’t imagine. You know, you never get over losing a child and I’m not gonna comment on Aaliyah’s mom’s comment. I will say that I was incredibly mindful. You know, Aaliyah’s my homegirl. She’s from Detroit, you know? Knew her, you know, very not well, but I knew her and I didn’t want to spend, out of the two hours, we spent about 11 to 12 minutes on Aaliyah’s story.
Karen Hunter: That’s why when I watched it, I was like, okay, that was it? It was like I expected there to be a whole episode on Aaliyah and it wasn’t.
Dream Hampton: Well, what would’ve been sensational would’ve been to do the whole episode on Aaliyah. To do an hour on her and I didn’t. For me, she’s actually his type, you know, what he targets are very regular, and you know, your audience understands this, like brown-skin black girls. You know, like he, we can talk about publicly, oh, that he targets black girls who aren’t famous. No, he has a very specific type, you know.
The Karen Hunter Show, SiriusXM
