NYT reported that, according to the filing, Rodgers said she met Kelly in March 2017 after he performed in San Antonio, Texas. She said she was flown to New York by Kelly after months of phone contact. It was in New York that Rodgers alleges Kelly "initiated unwanted sexual contact" in a hotel room and did not tell Rodgers he was infected with herpes. The suit claims she contracted the disease.
"He turns on all the lights ...And he's like, 'Take off your clothes.' And he says it, you know, with authority in his voice," Rodgers told CBS News Tuesday. "Not just, you know, he's demanding me to do this. And I didn't take off my clothes because why would I? I just wasn't ready… Sex isn't something, you know, I'm ready for."
Rodgers said she ultimately submitted and had sex with Kelly even though she didn’t want to. She claimed Kelly recorded the act on his iPad without her consent.
Rodgers said after the incident, Kelly asked how old she was.
“I told him and he’s like, ‘You know, if you’re really, you know, 16, that you can tell daddy, right?’ And he was like, ‘You know, you just look about 14, 15 or 16,’” she said.
Rodgers said in the suit that she was in a relationship with Kelly for a year, in which he “routinely engaged in intimidation, mental, verbal and sexual abuse, during and after sexual contact.” The suit alleges Kelly’s actions were “designed to humiliate, embarrass, intimate and shame her.”
The suit is seeking unspecified damages, alleging sexual battery, false imprisonment and failure to disclose a sexually transmitted disease. CBS News reported that Rodgers previously filed a criminal complaint with the Dallas Police Department in April.
In the past, Kelly has routinely denied allegations of sexual abuse. In response to the April criminal complaint, Kelly's representative said the musician "categorically denies all claims and allegations."
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