R Kelly hospitalised as lawyer claims a plot to kill him is underway
R. Kelly was hospitalised after collapsing in his prison cell due to a suspected medication overdose.
Rapper R. Kelly was reportedly rushed to the hospital after collapsing in his prison cell at the Butner Federal Correctional Complex in North Carolina. The 58-year-old R&B singer fainted after being given “an amount of medicine that could have killed him,” per AllHipHop.
This happened on the morning of Friday, 13 June, just two days after prison staff allegedly administered an increased dosage of medication. Kelly had been placed in isolation on Tuesday, 10 June. By Friday, he was experiencing severe symptoms, including dizziness and vision loss. Prison officials responded quickly, and Kelly was transferred to Duke University Hospital for emergency care.
“That means that, within two days of the filing of his motion, Bureau of Prisons officials administered an amount of medication that significantly exceeded a safe dose and caused Mr. Kelly to overdose, putting his life in jeopardy,” the rapper's lawyer, Beau B. Brindley, told AllHipHop.
Kelly’s lawyer claims prison officials conspired against him
This came just days after Kelly’s legal team filed a motion in Illinois warning that prison officials were putting his life at risk. That motion referenced a sworn statement from another inmate, Mikeal Glenn Stine, who claimed that both prison staff and white supremacist groups were conspiring to murder Kelly to hide alleged misconduct during his trial and imprisonment.
Shortly after those claims were filed, Kelly was moved into solitary confinement. Brindley noted the conditions were dire. He says the singer was cut off from phone calls, denied access to food from the commissary, and left to sleep in a cell infested with spiders. Out of fear of being poisoned, Kelly reportedly went days without eating.
While he was under medical observation following the overdose, doctors reportedly found blood clots in both his legs and lungs and recommended immediate surgery. But that surgery never happened. “Within an hour, officers with guns came into his hospital room and removed Mr. Kelly,” Brindley said.
“He was taken from the hospital against his will and against the directives of the doctors. He was denied the surgery he needs to clear blood clots in his lungs that threaten his life. This happened. This will be confirmed by hospital records. It is undeniable.”
Kelly was returned to solitary confinement shortly afterwards, according to the legal filing.
The Step in the Name of Love singer is currently serving a 30-year federal sentence after being convicted of sex trafficking and racketeering charges.
