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     *After years of remaining silent amidst one controversy after another involving her husband R. Kelly, wifey Andrea Lee Kelly is putting ALL the business on the street in the new issue of Essence magazine, on newsstands May 11.

      In an article titled “Notes on a Scandal,” Andrea Kelly opens up about her relationship with the superstar, the raising of their three children — two girls, ages 9 and 7, and a 5-year-old boy – and her husband’s alleged sex tape with a girl said to be 14.

      Although Andrea Kelly has never seen the footage and never actively sought to do so, she firmly believes that the man in the tape is not her husband.

      "C'mon," she said. "Who would believe all that? That's why they call them allegations," she said of his numerous criminal counts of child pornography.

      Despite her avid support for the R&B crooner, Andrea Kelly says she will not accompany him to court during his trial because she prefers to be home with their children.

      "I will take care of the home front," she said. "There is a war going on, and they don't send every soldier to Iraq. I've got to be homeland defense.”

      "I know the allegations against my husband don't reflect on me as an individual," she continued. "They don't reflect on me as a mom or as a wife, and they don't reflect on me in my everyday life. ... [But] I don't want to sit here and act as if I have some halo over my head. A person has to ask, 'How much did I allow?' "

      In fact, it was the children who encouraged Andrea Kelly to remain silent for so long as allegations and rumors about the artist swirled around her.

      "They may say, 'Mom and Dad went through a storm,' " she said. "But it's not the storm I want them to remember, it's how their mom came out of it."

      The Kellys first met when Andrea was 20 and auditioned to be a dancer for his “12 Play” tour. She got the gig and was soon promoted to choreographer. It was during this time that Kelly, then 27, married Aaliyah, then 15. The union was later annulled, clearing the way for Andrea and Kelly to become “a love story,” she says. They married in 1996, when she was 22.     

      She went on to choreograph and dance for Best of Both Worlds, Key in the Ignition and TP2.com Tours, as well as awards shows and videos for "Happy People," "Thoia Thoing," and "You Remind Me of Something."

       Several years after her husband’s alleged sex tape hit the Internet in Feb. 2002, Andrea Kelly claimed she was the victim of R-ruh’s physical and verbal abuse and in Sept. 2005 asked for an emergency protective order to keep the singer away from her.  She later rescinded the order, but she eventually separated from Kelly and moved out of their home. She tells Essence they're now attempting to reconcile.    

      "I'll tell you, whatever happens to us, I will love that man to the day I die," she said. …"I'm no fair-weather wife. I have children. I would never do anything to hurt their father. We have a bond that we will have for the rest of our lives because we have children. ... That we filed for divorce is not that important."

      Continue reading the revealing interview here.

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