R Kelly is rushed to hospital after overdosing in prison

Disgraced rapper R Kelly was rushed to hospital after his attorneys say he overdosed on medication given to him by staff in prison. 

The R&B star suffered the overdose after being forced to take anxiety medication by prison staff in solitary confinement, his attorney said in a filing. Federal prosecutors denied this. 

He is serving a 30-year prison sentence for racketeering and sex trafficking, after being exposed as a serial sex abuser in the #MeToo movement. 

According to an attorney for the rapper, real name Robert Sylvester Kelly, he was put into solitary confinement on June 10 and was locked up with anxiety medication. 

On the same day, he was given more medications and was directed to take them, the filing said. 

Three days later, Kelly reported feeling ‘faint’ and ‘dizzy’, and ‘started to see black spots in his vision’, before he passed out and was rushed to nearby Duke University Hospital. 

According to the filing, the rapper was heard telling a prison staffer that ‘this is going to open a new can of worms.’ 

Kelly spent two days recovering in hospital, and his attorneys allege that the prison staffers ‘gave him an amount of medicine that could have killed him.’  

Disgraced rapper R Kelly was rushed to hospital after overdosing on medication in prison

He is serving a 30-year prison sentence for racketeering and sex trafficking, after being exposed as a serial sex abuser in the #MeToo movement

According to Kelly’s lawyers, he has been mistreated in prison by staffers and has not been given necessary treatment for blood clots. 

When he was rushed to hospital, doctors reportedly found blood clots in his legs that will require further surgery. 

However, he was denied surgery and was removed from the hospital after several days. 

It comes as Kelly has pushed to receive a pardon from President Donald Trump earlier this month as he claimed he is the target of an assassination plot involving the leader of a white supremacist gang in prison. 

Prosecutors have slammed this attempt to be freed from his sex crimes sentence as ‘deeply unserious’ and ‘repugnant.’