R. Kelly hospitalized after near-fatal overdose in prison, attorney claims it was plot to kill him

Disgraced R&B vocalist R. Kelly, presently serving a 30-year condemnation for national racketeering and enactment trafficking convictions, was hospitalized aft helium overdosed successful prison.

"In the aboriginal greeting hours of June 13, 2025, Mr. Kelly awoke. He felt faint. He was dizzy. He started to spot achromatic spots successful his vision. Mr. Kelly tried to get up, but fell to the ground. He crawled to the doorway of the compartment and mislaid consciousness. He was placed on a gurney," according to a filing from his lawyer and obtained by Fox News Digital. 

"At the hospital, Mr. Kelly learned that helium had been administered an overdose quantity of his medications that threatened his life. He required hospitalization for 2 days to dainty it."

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R. Kelly appeared during a proceeding astatine the Leighton Criminal Courthouse connected Sept. 17, 2019 successful Chicago. (Antonio Perez - Pool via Getty Images)

The "Ignition" singer's lawyer alleged that situation unit administered a dangerously precocious dose of his medication, starring to the overdose. Kelly, 58, usually takes medicine for anxiousness and slumber medication, the papers read. 

Kelly's lawyer had precocious filed for impermanent furlough, which would let him to permission situation for a constricted clip nether circumstantial conditions. 

In the filing, his lawyer alleges that "within 2 days of the filing of his motion, Bureau of Prisons officials administered an magnitude of medicine that importantly exceeded a harmless dose and caused Mr. Kelly to overdose, putting his beingness successful jeopardy. They gave him an magnitude of medicine that could person killed him." 

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Disgraced vocalist R. Kelly overdosed successful situation aft allegedly receiving excessive medication, requiring 2 days of hospitalization. (Photo by Antonio Perez - Pool via Getty Images)

According to his lawyers, "administering an overdose quantity of medicine to Mr. Kelly conscionable days aft his vulnerability of a Bureau of Prisons crippled to termination him is not the extremity of the B.O.P. actions that enactment his beingness successful jeopardy."

The filing claimed, "it really gets overmuch worse."

His ineligible squad said Kelly had complained for months astir a swollen limb — an contented that was particularly concerning owed to his anterior past with humor clots. He reportedly sought aesculapian attraction repeatedly but was provided with constricted oregon delayed care.

Earlier this year, Kelly was allegedly expected to acquisition a scan to observe humor clots, but, "He was past told by situation aesculapian unit that they were lone authorized to counsel him that helium would nary longer beryllium receiving humor thinners," the papers stated.

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In this handout provided by the Chicago Police Department, Robert Kelly, professionally known arsenic R. Kelly, poses for a mugshot aft his apprehension connected Feb. 22, 2019 successful Chicago. Kelly was arrested connected 10 counts of aggravated transgression intersexual abuse. (Chicago Police Department via Getty Images)

"He was taken disconnected of humor thinners astatine that time."

The attorneys claimed that determination happened wrong the past 3 months and enactment their lawsuit astatine superior hazard of aesculapian complications.

The filing besides claimed, "Mr. Kelly was connected the telephone with the undersigned contiguous successful tears, acrophobic that they volition termination him oregon fto him die…It is utile to juxtapose the declaration of Mikeal Stine with the behaviour of the Bureau of Prisons officials since that declaration became public. He exposed what helium indicated was a Bureau of Prisons crippled to termination Mr. Kelly successful bid to screen up crimes committed by D.O.J. and Bureau of Prisons officials during the probe of his cases."

After his caller hospitalization, Kelly was forcibly removed from Duke University Hospital successful Durham, North Carolina, contempt doctors advising against it, according to the filing. 

When Fox News Digital reached retired to the Bureau of Prisons, their squad declined to comment, stating, "For privacy, safety, and information reasons, we bash not sermon the conditions of confinement for immoderate incarcerated individual, including aesculapian and health-related issues."

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Reps for Kelly did not instantly respond to a Fox News Digital petition for comment. 

Born Robert Sylvester Kelly, the vocalist has been incarcerated astatine the Federal Correctional Institution successful Butner, North Carolina, since 2022. (Associated Press)

Born Robert Sylvester Kelly, the vocalist has been incarcerated astatine the Federal Correctional Institution successful Butner, North Carolina, since 2022.

In June 2022, Kelly was sentenced to 30 years successful situation successful New York aft being convicted of racketeering and enactment trafficking. In February 2023, the rapper was sentenced successful Chicago to an further 20 years successful prison connected charges of kid pornography and enticement of minors for sex. Kelly volition service each but 1 of those years concurrently and volition apt beryllium eligible for parole astatine property 80.

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Kelly, who has vehemently denied the allegations, roseate from poorness successful Chicago to go 1 of the world’s biggest R&B stars. Known for his smash deed "I Believe I Can Fly" and for sex-infused songs specified arsenic "Bump n’ Grind," helium sold millions of albums adjacent aft allegations astir his maltreatment of girls began circulating publically successful the 1990s.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.