R. Kelly’s ex-business manager pulls U-turn, says he ‘learned a lot’ at trial

By the end of his first day-and-a-half testifying in his own defense, R. Kelly's onetime business manager had shared plenty of information with a federal jury that seemed helpful not only to himself, but to his former boss.

Derrel McDavid derided key prosecution witnesses. He insisted he thought the video at the center of Kelly's 2008 trial was a fake. And he choked up when he recalled how jurors in that 2008 trial acquitted Kelly — reaching what McDavid then thought was the right decision.

Then, McDavid pulled a U-turn. He said he "learned a lot of things" during Kelly's new trial in Chicago's federal court, now in its fourth week. He said he'd never before seen incriminating videos a new jury has seen. And he said he'd never before heard some of the testimony they've heard.

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'I'm embarrassed': R. Kelly's ex-business manager pulls U-turn, says he 'learned a lot' at trial

Kelly attorney Jennifer Bonjean objected to Derrel McDavid's "theatrics." McDavid took off his glasses, wiped away tears, and said, "this is not theatrics, ma'am."

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