R Kelly allegedly hospitalised after ‘overdosing’ and blames prison staff

The imprisoned musician R Kelly was rushed to hospital after “overdosing”. He lawyers are claiming that this was part of a plot to kill him.

In a new court filing seen by TMZ, R Kelly’s lawyers say that on 12th June, a prison staff member told R Kelly to take additional medication. The next morning, he felt dizzy, so he “crawled to the door of the cell and lost consciousness.” Kelly spent two days in Duke University Hospital. The healthcare staff allegedly told him he had taken a life-threatening amount of medication.

In this filing, Kelly also accused the prison staff of not giving him blood-thinning medication, and of not allowing him to get surgery to clear blood clots from his lungs and legs. Kelly alleges that he will either die or be killed if he stays in prison, and he is asking to be temporarily released to home confinement.

TMZ says prosecutors quickly filed a response, which said “This is the behaviour of an abuser and a master manipulator on display.” The response accuses Kelly of deliberately submitting his filing to a court that doesn’t have any jurisdiction over his case, so he could turn the situation into “a grocery store checkout aisle tabloid”.

This follows R Kelly’s request last week to be released from prison because of an alleged threat to his life. The filing from 10th June claims the authorities asked two members of the Aryan Brotherhood to kill him. The legal document says: “The threat to Mr Kelly’s life continues each day that no action is taken… Mr Kelly’s continued incarceration while he knows his life is in jeopardy constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.”

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R Kelly is incarcerated at the Butner Medium I federal correctional institution in the USA. He has been in prison since 2020. He is serving concurrent 20-year and 30-year terms for charges including child sexual exploitation, racketeering and sex trafficking.

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