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Kelly Khumalo Story

 I told Melinda a lot of things and she became a part of my life 

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It includes a dark time in the singer's career when she had to go back home to her mother's RDP house with her Hummer parked in the small yard as a reminder of her once lavish lifestyle.

The story of the recovering drug addict and singer is all too familiar, with elements of the fall and darkness of a broken star.

The author, Melinda Ferguson, has only dangled a carrot in front of the reader as Khumalo's voice lacks conviction in the book.

The Kelly Khumalo Story, already available in bookshops, will be launched at the end of the month.

It tells the tale of two former drug addicts. Ferguson, a reformed addict and True Love features editor, tells her story alongside Khumalo's.

"I told Melinda a lot of things and she became a part of my life," said Khumalo, explaining the format.

Apart from events including Khumalo's drug addiction, alleged abusive relationship with ex-lover Molemo "Jub Jub" Maarohanye, who fathered her son Christian, and lying on national television that she was a virgin, what stands out is how Khumalo regressed - from riches to rags, from her classy Bassonia flat to an RDP house - after her addiction had ravaged her fortunes.

Khumalo returns home to her mother's two-roomed house in Spruitview, Ekurhuleni, to add to the already full household.

The Hummer parked in the tiny gateless garden all but dwarfs the small two-roomed RDP-style brick home. The house belongs to Kelly's mother, Ntombi.

Meanwhile, Maarohanye and Themba Tshabalala - who are facing four counts of murder, two of attempted murder, reckless or negligent driving and driving under the influence of drugs - are due to hear their fate when the verdict is expected to be handed down in the Protea Magistrate's Court in Soweto between Wednesday and Friday this week.

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Oct 8, 2012

Mxcm!!!

God save us from all these bloody autobiogrphy's!
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Oct 8, 2012

MmaSeshego

Do these people really think somebody will spend their hard earned money on these books they keep writing? Why would we do that when they splash their lives all over for everybody to see. reading the book would be like watching repeat ya movie
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Oct 8, 2012

BOOKIE

This girls must be thinking they are very special.
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Oct 8, 2012

wesbuw22

Bathong ka borega sooo ke bala article..i guess the book is nt interstn dts y dey include Jub-Jub.
Kelly mi darling you dnt hv a an interestn life...

if u went an slept with a rich man or married one then u wud have sumthg ther bt we dnt care cz u gna blame Jub-Jub bt beware kana Mam Jacky ostrong that lady otlago fukunyetsa kwa
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Oct 8, 2012

goodvibes

Liars!!...its not even a 2 roomed house...its a 5 room house.. really she's trying to get our symphaty by liying and her father is a DR... so really this poor picture that your painting is not real and the yard is not small hle! maka...
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Oct 8, 2012

Vongsta

MmaSeshego
Do these people really think somebody will spend their hard earned money on these books they keep writing? Why would we do that when they splash their lives all over for everybody to see. reading the book would be like watching repeat ya movie
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Good question gal......I mean who wants to read about Khanyi and Kelly? the KFC ad nje was enough to know about them............
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Oct 8, 2012

KukuyaLethosa

Why does she lie about her family's financial status? Her mother's house isn't a two bedroomed RDP house, it's huge house and her father is a doctor. She comes from well off family. She might be broke, but her family isn't struggling like that of Jabu Pule or Thabang Lebese or Lovers Mohlala or Joel Fire Masilela.
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Oct 8, 2012

siya0505

these wana be celebz kill me, why would i want to read about a life thats not profitable to any soul.
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Oct 8, 2012

MsHollyHerb

next? molweni mabloggers

savelelwa if its not a reality show its a book, ingenile bo lemfashini. and we must buy for what? to make them richer ngeke bakubone lokho,

wonder whats really going between these two Khanyi ukhipha ncwadi Kelly does it , and these books look lyk everybody whos nobody wants one, Bonnie and now Florence whos next?
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Oct 8, 2012

PiratesandChiefsPissesmeoff

Only pirates and Chiefs Fans/Supporters will buy this b00k...
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