R Kelly has been rushed to hospital after a near-fatal overdose while serving 30 years in a North Carolina prison.
R Kelly, real name Robert Sylvester Kelly, is currently serving a 30-year sentence in prison for sex trafficking and racketeering after being arrested in 2019.
A recent filing seen by TMZ from the 58-year-old singer’s lawyer, Beau Brindley, revealed that the artist was placed in isolation on June 10 with his anxiety medication.
He was then given further medication from prison staff, later losing consciousness three days later.
He was taken to Duke University Hospital on June 13 and was taken back to his cell after two days of observation.
Brindley has claimed that the officers intentionally ‘gave him an amount of medicine that could have killed him.’
He added: ‘This was no mistake. It was a dose that jeopardised his life and could have ended it.
Brindley has now filed an emergency motion for Kelly’s early release from prison.
This marks his third attempt to get his client out from behind bars.
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