R. Kelly was hospitalized for an overdose after prison staff gave him "an amount of medicine that could have killed him" and was later forcibly removed from a hospital against medical advice, his lawyer alleged in a federal court filing Monday.

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.