R. Kelly Survivor Azriel Clary Says He Coached Her Before Gayle King Interview

Azriel Gayle claimed that she was coached before her 2019 Gayle King interview.

Azriel revealed it in her second interview with Gayle. She said that after Kelly recorded his interview with Gayle King, he told Azriel and Joycelyn Savage “to be angry and be upset.”

“We came in angry and I was scared because I was like, I don’t want the world to see me this way,” Clary told King. “I’m loving, I’m caring, I’m compassionate. And no one got to see that side of me.”

She also admitted the video is all lies.

“Everything, everything,” she said. “Before that interview, you know, he had us practicing every single day, answering questions. If he didn’t like our answers, he would tell us exactly what to say and how to say it. So anytime you mention anything about sexual preference, we already know to say, ‘I’m not here to talk about that.'”

She also shared why she and Joycelyn didn’t leave.

“A lot of people don’t realize that, with victims, the more you try to help them, the more it upsets them sometimes,” she said.