R Kelly Was Standing Behind Jocelyn Savage & Azriel Clary During Their Shock Interview R Kelly was present during Jocelyn Savage and Azriel Clary's interview. Picture: Getty/Twitter CBS interviewer Gayle King has admitted that R Kelly was present in the room during her interview with Jocelyn Savage and Azriel Clary. Gayle King, who has been praised for the handling of R Kelly's recent shock interview on CBS following his arrest on multiple sexual misconduct allegations, has revealed that the R&B star influenced the interviews of his alleged victims Jocelyn Savage and Azriel Clary. Jocelyn and Azriel sat down for an interview with Gayle King just minutes after she had spoken with R Kelly but what people didn't know is that R Kelly was present throughout the whole thing. R kelly broke down during his interview with Gayle King. Picture: Twitter Revealing the truth behind R Kelly's presence at the interview of Jocelyn and Azriel, Gayle King said, "His team told us that R Kelly would not be in the room. After the interview started he was around the corner behind them, they couldn't see him but at points duing the conversation he would cough very loudly so they would know he was there." Explaining that R Kelly attempted to stop the interview on numerous occasions, Gayle explained that the 'Ignition' star came up to her make up artist several times to stop the proceedings. Gayle said, "R Kelly came up to him and said should I stop this interview?" . @GayleKing asked R. Kelly and the women about allegations he lured women with promises of helping their singing careers. Azriel Clary and Joycelyn Savage deny they have singing aspirations. https://t.co/tDUt6ssRu1 pic.twitter.com/eEd5mQTPVg — CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) March 7, 2019 Revealing her feelings about R Kelly's situation with Jocelyn Savage and Azriel Clary, Gayle King went on to admit, "I just wanted to say — as a mother — get your things, let's go. You are 21, you are 23, and he is 52 years old." "Now I know many people believe that age is just a number, but when you're looking at these young women they parrot a lot of what he is saying. It's a bad situation. I think one day years from now, everybody will look back on this and say it's very sad, very tawdry and just very very ugly." After both Azriel and Jocelyn defended R Kelly during their interview, a lawyer for Jocelyn's parents said, "Azriel Clary is presently suffering from years of mental abuse and manipulation by R Kelly. Sadly, like so many girls before them, Azriel and Joycelyn Savage have been manipulated and convinced by Kelly to lie to protect him from serious criminal charges." > Download Our Free App For All The Ltest R Kelly News!<doc-sep>UPDATED Mar. 6, 6:35 p.m. ET: Joycelyn Savage contacted her family after R. Kelly's CBS This Morning interview, according to the family's attorney, Gerald Griggs. “We are glad to finally hear from Joycelyn today,” Griggs told Rolling Stone. “After speaking with her little sister, Joycelyn paused from the seemingly prepared script and was able to share her love for her family. We hope that today was the first step to re-establishing a loving relationship with her family.” In a video posted to Twitter, Joycelyn can be heard on the phone telling her family that she's okay. "I’ve told you guys a million million times I’m okay where I am, and I’m happy," she says in the video. A short while after the video was posted, TMZ reported that R. Kelly's team is in the process of organizing a reunion between Joycelyn and her family. Gerald Griggs, an attorney for the Savage family, relayed the news to the publication. The family reportedly plans on bringing a psychologist to the meeting. See the original story below. Joycelyn Savage’s family has responded to R. Kelly’s CBS interview after it aired on Wednesday morning. During a press conference held outside the L.A. office of attorney Gerald A. Griggs, they responded to a few statements made by Kelly during the interview. Griggs countered the claim that Joycelyn’s father had offered Joycelyn to Kelly during a concert, and that Mr. Savage and Kelly had met before. “Mr. Kelly stated on Gayle King's show that Mr. Timothy Savage provided his daughter on stage at a concert that Mr. Kelly was performing at,” Griggs said. “That is absolutely not true.” Griggs continued to refute claims made by Kelly during the CBS interview, and addressed allegations that the Savages were accepting money from Kelly. “[Kelly] also indicated that these parents came forward after the money stopped, I can stay here unequivocally that at no point have the Savages requested any money from Mr. Robert Sylvester Kelly,” he said. Joycelyn’s middle sister then spoke, saying that Joycelyn “would’ve called home by now” if she wasn’t being abused. “I know for a fact my sister is not okay. I know for a fact R. Kelly is mentally destroying her, and I just want her home.” Both Joycelyn’s father and mother responded to the interview as well. Mr. Savage said, “It was emotionally disturbing for all of us. I sit there and I want to not just pray for my daughter, but pray for Mr. Kelly to get some type of healing.” The mother added, “What I saw on TV this morning about the way he acted when he got upset, I [can only] imagine what he does behind closed doors when he is not in [front of the] camera.” She continued, “Allegedly, he has a bad temper, he’s very controlling, and when the girls don’t do something or say something that he likes, he really throws a rage and becomes physically violent.” R. Kelly appeared in his first interview since being charged with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse. During the CBS interview, the singer denied the allegations against him, dismissing the claims as “rumors.”<doc-sep>The parents of Joycelyn Savage, one of two young women in a relationship with R. Kelly, held a press conference Wednesday morning claiming Kelly lied in his interview with "CBS This Morning" co-host Gayle King. They reiterated their belief that the R&B singer has kept their daughter estranged from her family for two years. "Joycelyn, we went from seeing you, talking to you weekly, to not seeing you for two years," her mother, Jonjelyn Savage, said during the press conference in Decatur, Georgia. "So that is a clear indication to us, and as a mother, that something is definitely wrong with this situation." "The allegations Mr. Kelly has brought against my family is very horrific," Joycelyn's father, Timothy Savage, said. "We are a solid family, we care about our daughter. From day one the only thing we wanted to do was actually to see our daughter, hear from our daughter, and make sure she's fine." Kelly is currently in a relationship with 23-year-old Savage and 21-year-old Azriel Clary. Both of them live with Kelly at his Chicago home. The parents of both women believe the 52-year-old R&B star has brainwashed their daughters into being a part of his alleged sex cult. In an earlier statement released to the public, the Clary family attorney called Kelly "a liar, manipulator and sociopath." In an exclusive interview with "CBS This Morning's" Gayle King that aired Wednesday, Kelly said he met Joycelyn Savage after her father brought her to one of his concerts when she was 19. "I didn't go looking for a Joycelyn Savage. I was doing my show ... he brought her and asked a friend of mine to put her on the stage with R. Kelly, make sure she's on the stage," he said. "That is absolutely not true," the Savage family attorney Gerald Griggs said Wednesday morning during the press conference, stating, "that at no point has Mr. Kelly ever met Mr. Timothy Savage." Kelly was indicted February 22 and turned himself in to Chicago police. He was charged with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse involving four victims, three of whom were underage. He is being prosecuted by the Cook County state's attorney. Sources tell CBS News federal and state authorities in at least two states — New York and Illinois — are now investigating a variety of allegations. Allegations of sexual abuse have trailed Kelly over the past 25 years. He married the late singer Aaliyah in 1994 when he was 27 and she 15; it was later discovered that she lied and listed her age on the marriage certificate as 18. The marriage was annulled in 1995. Kelly settled out of court with three different women in 1996, 2001 and 2002 over claims he had sexual relationships with them when they were minors. In 2002, Kelly was indicted on 21 counts of child pornography for participating with a minor in a sex tape. After years of delays and a reduction to 14 counts, in 2008 Kelly was found not guilty of all charges after the jury deliberated for a day. The recent Lifetime series "Surviving R. Kelly" drew new attention to the years of allegations against him. The Savage and Clary families fear his relationships with the two women, nearly 30 years younger than him, are cause for concern. "We are in a battle to make sure she is not a victim to the allegations that we've heard and now the charges that we've heard against Robert Sylvester Kelly," Griggs said Wednesday, as the Savage family stood beside him. When Gayle King asked Kelly about the families' claims, Kelly pointed the finger right back at them. "You're with two women right now. You love them, they say they love you. What kind of love is it that keeps these young women away from their families?" King asked in the "CBS This Morning" interview. "I'm going to answer your question. What kind of father, what kind of mother, will sell their daughter to a man?" Kelly said. Asked by King if he was saying that Azriel Clary and Joycelyn Savage's parents handed their daughters over to him, Kelly said, "Absolutely. Are the cameras still going? Absolutely." He also said, "How come it was OK for me to see them until they wasn't getting no money from me? Why would you take your daughter — if I'm going to take my daughter and she's 19 years old to a 49-year-old icon, whatever, celebrity or R. Kelly concert or whoever it is, I'm not going to put her on the stage and leave her. I'm going to take her to the concert. Their father is more into my music and know about my music than they do." The Savage family denied being in it for the money. "We want the record to remain clear that at no point did Tim, Jonjelyn Savage ever request, ever demand, ever receive any financial compensation from Robert Sylvester Kelly," Griggs said during his press conference with the family.<doc-sep>
R. Kelly's ranting interview with CBS on Wednesday morning had one immediate impact: Joycelyn Savage, one of his alleged "sex slaves," who hasn't talked to her family in two years, called them to say she's fine and "very happy" after they held a press conference condemning Kelly and begging her to get in touch. "I've told you guys a million, million times, that I'm OK and I'm very happy, you know where I'm at," Joycelyn Savage, 23, kept saying on the phone call to the office of her family's Atlanta lawyer, Gerald Griggs, who posted it on Twitter. But her mother, Jonjelyn Savage, and her sisters, Jori, 11, and Jailyn, 18, kept asking her, "When are you coming home?" "How do we know you're happy if we haven't heard from you for two years?" her mother asked. "Why can't you call your family or friends or come to your grandfather's funeral or talk to your grandmother who has Stage 4 cancer?" Joycelyn hung up after about three minutes, Griggs told USA TODAY, and he said she appeared to be "reading from a script." "When her little sister asked her, how're you doing, she paused for 45 seconds," Griggs said. "She called because she and someone in Kelly's camp saw our press conference (responding to Kelly's CBS interview). That broke through whatever control (Kelly) has over her." CBS's Gayle King's interview with Joycelyn Savage and Azriel Clary, is scheduled to air Thursday morning. Both women, who Kelly referred to as his girlfriends, are believed to live with him and remain his supporters, although their parents have accused him, in the Lifetime film "Surviving R. Kelly," of holding them against their will in his alleged "sex cult." Michael Avenatti, the Los Angeles lawyer who says he represents multiple accusers of Kelly, hinted that he represents Clary's parents, Alice and Angelo Clary, in tweets condemning the interview with their daughter, snippets of which have been aired. “It is pathetic and disgusting that R Kelly has manipulated these young girls and lied to them about their families. It has been his modus operandi for decades and part of his abuse," Avenatti tweeted. In King's interview with Kelly, he ranted, screamed and cried about the sex-crimes charges Cook County prosecutors in Chicago have brought against him, denied he had ever engaged in sex with underage girls and called all of his accusers liars. The Savages said they watched the interview as a "church-going family." "If he gets this upset on TV, I can only imagine what he does behind closed doors when he's not on camera," said Jonjelyn Savage. "Allegedly he has a bad temper, he's very controlling, and when the girls do something he doesn't like, he throws a rage and becomes physically violent." Griggs said both Joycelyn Savage and Azriel Clary attended Kelly's $1 million bond hearing on Feb. 23, although neither talked to the media, Griggs said. Griggs said he believes Joycelyn called because of the press conference the family held in Fulton County, Georgia, after Kelly's CBS interview aired, to deny Kelly's assertions, among others, that Joycelyn's father, Timothy Savage, had offered his daughter to Kelly for money. At no point did this happen, Griggs said. "No money was ever requested or given to the Savages. Stop the lies or show the receipts. #RKelly. Tim Savage has never met R Kelly," Griggs tweeted. He said "someone in the Kelly camp" saw the press conference and contacted Griggs to set up a phone call from the daughter. He said the family was not surprised to hear her say, again, that she's fine, but was surprised that her little sister was able to throw her off her "script." Still, Griggs told USA TODAY, "I feel that we (the Savage family) will be speaking in person to Joycelyn very, very soon, I believe the needle has been moved and I'm cautiously optimistic." Griggs, a longtime defense attorney in the Atlanta area, predicted Kelly's interview with King will come back to haunt him at his trial in Chicago on 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse dating back to 1998 and involving four accusers, three of them under 17 at the time. "It's an out-of-court statement and any pre-court statement can be used against him to prove a fact" at trial, Griggs said. "He denied having sex with anyone under 17 – now prosecutors can use that statement against him (at trial)."