{"id":974202,"date":"2019-12-30T08:18:02","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T15:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=931449"},"modified":"2019-12-30T08:18:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T15:18:02","slug":"surviving-r-kelly-the-reckoning-clip-dominique-gardner-prepares-to-tell-her-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/surviving-r-kelly-the-reckoning-clip-dominique-gardner-prepares-to-tell-her-story\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Surviving R. Kelly: The Reckoning\u2019 Clip: Dominique Gardner Prepares to Tell Her Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/0908b04rk02_dominique-1-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Dominque Gardner, whose surprise defection from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/r-kelly\/\" id=\"auto-tag_r-kelly\" data-tag=\"r-kelly\">R. Kelly<\/a> was one of the key moments in <em>Surviving R. Kelly<\/em>, agreed to speak on camera for the first time about her time with the singer for Lifetime\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lifetime-surviving-r-kelly-part-ii-the-reckoning-2020-925313\/\">upcoming docuseries <em>Surviving R. Kelly Part II: The Reckoning<\/em><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cBefore Dominque met R. Kelly, she was this bubbly teenager,\u201d her mother Michelle Kramer says in the clip. \u201cBut after R. Kelly, she was dark. She was like a loner; she didn\u2019t want to be bothered with nobody.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Kramer\u2019s efforts to reestablish contact with her daughter and wrest her away from Kelly\u2019s control, including staking out a Los Angeles hotel, featured in the initial documentary as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-features\/r-kelly-michelle-kramer-dominique-gardner-hotel-rescue-777852\/\">a follow-up interview with <em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a>; Gardner soon returned to Kelly, but eventually came back to her family, where she has remained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In the months after <em>Surviving R. Kelly<\/em>, Gardner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/news-desk\/he-tried-to-break-me-dominique-gardner-one-of-r-kellys-longtime-girlfriends-speaks-out\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">spoke about her ordeal with <em>the New Yorker<\/em><\/a>, but <em>Part II: The Reckoning<\/em> marks her first television interview, with Gardner sitting down with Lifetime in September 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The first part of the three-night, six-hour <em>Surviving R. Kelly Part II: The Reckoning<\/em> will premiere January 2nd, with subsequent parts to follow on January 3rd and 4th.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The follow-up will feature new interviews with journalist Jim DeRogatis,&nbsp;Damon Dash,&nbsp;Mathew Knowles, #MeToo Founder Tarana Burke,&nbsp;W. Kamau Bell, State\u2019s Attorney for Cook County Kimberly Foxx, lawyer Michael Avenatti (who represents some of Kelly\u2019s alleged victims) and women like Jerhonda Pace and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-features\/surviving-r-kelly-118608\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Kitti Jones, who featured prominently in&nbsp;<i>Surviving R. Kelly<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/r-kelly-dominique-gardner-surviving-931449\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominque Gardner, whose surprise defection from R. Kelly was one of the key moments in Surviving R. Kelly, agreed to speak on camera for the first time about her time with the singer for Lifetime\u2019s upcoming docuseries Surviving R. Kelly Part II: The Reckoning. \u201cBefore Dominque met R. Kelly, she was this bubbly teenager,\u201d her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 06:14:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}