‘I’m not supposed to die this way’ – R. Kelly ‘scared or his life’ in jail

Disgraced RnB singer R Kelly says he is “scared for his life” after recovering from emergency surgery to treat blood clots in his leg.

In an unexpected turn of events, the 56-year-old, who is serving a 20-year jail term in Chicago’s Metropolitan Correctional Centre after being convicted on child pornography charges last year, accused the prison medical staff of negligence.

According to an interview by RapHouseTV last week, Kelly’s latest blood clot procedure was “botched” by the prison medical team.

He also stated that he did not “deserve to die” and that “someone miscommunicated or made a guess as to what was wrong with my leg”.

“I’m not supposed to die this way,” he said in the interview from jail. “You’re not supposed to even take a chance on that.”

“They didn’t even do an X-ray. That is why I am speaking out since I am afraid for my life in that area. And who wouldn’t be? They treat their animals better than that.

“If it was your child, your father, your mother, or somebody you loved, you would have said, ‘Go to the doctor, that has to be looked into, we must investigate this, we need to X-ray that’,” Kelly added.

Kelly, full name Robert Sylvester Kelly, was convicted in September last year on six counts of child pornography and enticement of a minor. In February 2023, he was sentenced to 30 years in jail.

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