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 statement to CBS News and a federal court filing.

The singer was convicted of racketeering and sex trafficking in 2021 and is serving a prison sentence in North Carolina.

R. Kelly's attorneys say the R&B singer collapsed in prison and was hospitalized. The details made in court records this week came after Kelly's extraordinary allegations of a murder plot by prison officials that he argues require his temporary release on home detention.