What people seem to forget is R Kelly was friends with Michael Jackson who was also accused of child rape. MJ claimed he would rather kill himself than harm a child. However befriending a man who married a 15 yr old and who was also accused of raping and filming a rape of another child in a indirect way was harming children. Common logic would assume that these men would have nothing to do with each other. However like most codependent relationship it seems these two men commiserated about how they were wronged which was more about why their preference for underage males or females was not accepted by general society.