Robert Sylvester Kelly known as R Kelly was rushed to hospital after he overdosed on medication given to him by staff in prison, according to his lawyer in a legal filing.

R. Kelly update

The embattled singer suffered the overdose last week after prison guards deliberately gave him too much of his anxiety medication.

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

The R&B singer claims he was put into solitary confinement on June 10 as a retaliatory move by prison staff after he accused them of orchestrating an elaborate plot to kill him.

Federal prosecutors rejected these allegations at the time as ‘deeply unserious’. In response to Kelly’s latest filing, the Bureau of Prisons declined to comment on ‘pending litigation.’  

Kelly says he was locked up in solitary confinement with his regular dose of anxiety medication, but on June 13, he was given an ‘overdose quantity’ of the medications and was directed to take them, the filing said.