In bizarre and chilling news that even R. Kelly’s legal team is treating as alarming, the embattled R&B singer overdosed in his North Carolina prison cell and had to be rushed to the hospital. The episode, dubbed by his lawyer as potentially life-threatening and of suspicious origin, has revived accusations of a sinister scheme against the 58-year-old singer.
According to court documents filed by his attorney, Beau B. Brindley, Kelly was confined in solitary at the MCC. Two days later, on June 12, he was reportedly given drugs by prison staff – more than two times the safe level, according to his legal team. By Friday morning, Kelly had passed out and was experiencing dizziness and loss of vision. He was taken to Duke University Hospital, where doctors estimated that the dose might have been lethal.
“They gave him a nearly lethal dose of medicine,” Brindley said in a statement. “This was not an accident but jeopardized his life.”
Kelly, serving a 30-year sentence for sex trafficking and racketeering, had been under observation for two days. But the theatrics didn’t end there. Kelly was removed from the hospital forcibly and against both his wishes and doctors’ care instructions, according to Brindley.
“An hour later, officers with guns came into his hospital room and took Mr. Kelly,” Brindley said. “He has been denied the surgery he needs to clear his blood clots in his lungs, which could save his life.”
It was reported that doctors discovered blood clots in both of Kelly’s legs and lungs, posing a potentially lethal situation if not treated properly. But rather than receive surgery, the singer was placed back into solitary confinement, where, Brindley claims, he’s being subjected to inhumane conditions: no phone calls, no safe food, even spiders crawling over him while he sleeps.
Filed on Monday, June 16, this new emergency motion is the third time attorneys have asked Jason to be temporarily released to home confinement. Kelly’s legal team maintains that his life is in imminent peril, particularly so after a fellow inmate, Mikeal Glenn Stine, came forward with stunning accusations. Stine claimed that prison employees and white supremacists were actively working to cause harm to Kelly to silence him and cover up misconduct that occurred in his prosecution.
The proximity of the two events is too close for coincidence, according to Brindley. “Within two days of our filing our motion, Mr. Kelly received what could be a deadly dose of medication. That is not a coincidence.”
Regardless of whether you see Kelly as a carrion for the artist who disgraced himself or as a man under siege, this latest twist in what already was Gerry Finley-Day’s “The Final Fight” of life raises deeply unnerving questions about justice, safety, and life behind prison walls.
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