R. Kelly: "'The Notebook' Inspired My Divorce"

Film seems to have had reverse effect on him

R. Kelly is revealing in his new memoir what inspired him to divorce his wife Andrea Kelly...just as she's getting her own spotlight on VH1's "Hollywood Exes."

Kelly claims after watching The Notebook, he realized his own 12-year marriage couldn't stand up to the romance featured in the film, according to TMZ.

He wrote,

"As the film credits started to roll, I couldn't move. I burst into tears. People walking past me patted me on the back, trying to console me. 'The Notebook' was beautiful, and I was crying because its hero and heroine had died together. But I was also crying because I remembered a Valentine's Day -- when a helicopter dropped a rainfall of roses -- that had come and gone ... My marriage had died. And there was nothing I could do to bring it back."

Who knew R. Kelly was such a softie?

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