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(NewsNation) — Lawyers for R. Kelly say the vocalist overdosed past week connected medicine fixed to him by situation staff, a assertion that follows a erstwhile allegation that the singer's beingness was successful danger.
In a June 17 filing, lawyers accidental that aft the R&B vocalist was enactment successful solitary confinement and fixed an "overdose quantity" of slumber and anxiousness medication, which led to his being hospitalized.
Kelly's squad says helium was enactment successful solitary confinement aft an exigency question was filed calling for him to beryllium moved to location detention.
Lawyers accidental Kelly woke up connected Jun. 13 feeling dizzy, with achromatic spots successful his imaginativeness and incapable to get up without falling. The filing says helium crawled to the doorway of his compartment earlier fainting.
Kelly was past taken to the infirmary by ambulance and hospitalized for 2 days.
The filing besides says Kelly was removed from the Duke University Hospital successful Durham, North Carolina, wherever helium had been treated against aesculapian advice.
"Then, they took him retired of a infirmary astatine gunpoint and denied him country connected humor clots successful his lungs that the infirmary said needed contiguous intervention," the filing said.
Kelly, 58, is serving a 30-year sentence astatine a national situation successful Butner, North Carolina, for racketeering and enactment trafficking. He faced accusations from aggregate women who accidental helium sexually abused them, immoderate of them erstwhile they were underage.
The erstwhile question for Kelly to beryllium removed from situation centered astir allegations that Board of Prisons employees were moving with an inmate successful an effort to termination the singer.
