HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – There are days when Lizzette Martinez can’t recognize her own life.

“My biggest dream and desire is to have the other life that I had," Martinez said. "I don’t see how I can go back to being who I was."

Last year, Martinez accused R&B singer R. Kelly of physically and mentally abusing her when she was just 17-years-old. She thought she would get some closure and perhaps warn others, but instead her life was turned upside down.  

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Two years after #MeToo first went viral, accusers like Martinez are still struggling. Since the fall of 2017, more than 1,300 high-profile people have been accused of sexual misconduct, according to New York Based crisis firm Temin & Co. Many of them lost their jobs and reputations.

Soon after telling her story in a Lifetime documentary, Surviving R Kelly, Martinez was hit with a barrage of online trolls. Then, strangers started arriving at her home in Miami.

After two break-ins in four months, Martinez began suffering from severe anxiety and depression and lost both her home and her job as a project manager at a restaurant chain. These days, Martinez is couch-surfing with friends in Los Angeles and cleaning houses to make ends meet.

“I can’t even buy a hamburger, but my face is on Sunset Boulevard,” Martinez said.

Although sexual misconduct allegations against Kelly have swirled for years, it was the Lifetime docu-series that sparked renewed attention to the case, resulting in federal charges against him, and the termination of his record deal.  

Kelly has been held in a Chicago jail since July on federal sex crimes charges. He also faces charges in New York on racketeering, kidnapping, forced labor, and the sexual exploitation of a child.

Coming forward came with a hefty price-tag for Martinez.

“I didn’t know how to deal with it,” Martinez said. "My face was everywhere. I didn’t have therapy either.”

Adding insult to injury, Martinez said that she was booked at the same hotel as some of R. Kelly’s associates during a recent filming of the show’s second season -- the same people who facilitated her abuse.

“It just made me feel sick to my stomach," Martinez said. "It’s just another thing to feel angry and upset about and hurt about.”

Spectrum News 1 reached out to Lifetime, a spokeswoman for the network declined to comment.