Lifetime's Surviving R. Kelly document series was a huge hit last year. The showed a harrowing tale in which women were telling the singer's hands their stories of alleged sexual and other abuse.

On the basis of its success, the makers have now released the sequel titled Surviving R. Kelly Part II: The Reckoning which will be 5 episodes long. The first two episodes premiered on Thursday, Jan. 2nd. The first season of the series last year explored the multiple allegations of abuse, manipulation and inappropriate encounters with girls of sexual misconduct over decades by Kelly.

It ultimately led him to be charged and dropped by his record label for various crimes. Kelly pleaded not guilty to a number of federal charges, including child sexual exploitation and kidnapping, and is currently being held at the Chicago Metropolitan Correctional Center

The first two episodes that debuted on Thursday included interviews with two of the multi platinum singer’s brothers, a few victims victims who did not appear in Season 1 and a few supporters of Kelly’s. That included Lindsey Perryman-Dunn, who worked for the singer from 1999 to 2007. Writer Jim DeRogatis, who was one of the first to highlight Kelly’s misconduct, is also interviewed in this sequel.

“I was reporting many of these stories for years,” said DeRogatis, who wrote a 2017 Buzzfeed article that alleged Kelly had a “cult” of women. “But the power of television to make people feel as if they met these women, so many of these people who I’d talked to, I’d had these experiences, but not all of America had.”

In the first new episode airing on Lifetime Thursday, former record executive Damon Dash spoke on Kelly’s relationship with then-underage singer Aaliyah. He says Aaliyah tried to distance herself from Kelly after their secret marriage when she was just 15.

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