R&B artist R. Kelly, who is being held on sex-related charges, has been taken to the hospital after suffering a life-threatening overdose, his lawyers said.

R. Kelly, the embattled R&B singer currently serving a 30-year sentence for sex trafficking and racketeering, was hospitalized following what his attorneys describe as a deliberate overdose. The incident occurred at the Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, North Carolina, where Kelly has been imprisoned since his 2021 conviction.

R. Kelly is accusing prison staff of trying to kill him through a drug overdose that sent him to the hospital over the weekend. In a Monday addendum to a previous emergency motion, Forbes reports, lawyers for the disgraced R&B singer claimed the overdose was part of an ongoing “plot to take Mr.