R. Kelly’s attorney is raising serious concerns about his client’s safety behind bars, claiming the embattled R&B singer suffered a medical crisis after being given an overdose of medication while in solitary confinement.
According to documents reviewed by AllHipHop, the incident occurred shortly after Kelly’s legal team filed court motions accusing the Bureau of Prisons of endangering his life. Just two days later, Kelly, 58, was placed in isolation and given extra medication. By the next morning, he had collapsed in his cell, experiencing dizziness, vision loss, and fainting. He was rushed to Duke University Hospital, where doctors determined the dosage he received could have been fatal.
“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,” said his attorney, Beau B. Brindley. “They gave him an amount of medicine that could have killed him.”
Brindley added that after doctors discovered blood clots in both legs and lungs and recommended surgery, “officers with guns came into his hospital room and removed Mr. Kelly… He was denied the surgery he needs to clear blood clots in his lungs that threaten his life.”
The legal team’s third emergency motion for release alleges ongoing threats, including a fellow inmate’s claim that prison staff and white supremacists were targeting Kelly. Brindley warns: “This will be confirmed by hospital records. It is undeniable.”
