Courtesy LifetimeThe Lifetime docuseries Surviving R. Kelly, which aired in January 2019, is credited as a catalyst for the numerous federal and state criminal sex abuse charges filed against R. Kelly himself. The executive producers say didn’t plan on a part two at the time — until they discovered there were alleged victims who were being ignored.
“At some point, a reporter shared a conversation that they had had with authorities where clear evidence of tapes and pictures of sexual abuse of minors had been obtained and those charges were dropped,” co-executive producer Brie Miranda Bryant tells The Hollywood Reporter. “The reporter wanted to know why. And the answer the