R. Kelly Has Emergency Throat Surgery

[Stephan Bobb]

R. Kelly Has Emergency Throat Surgery

*The AP is reporting that singer R. Kelly is hospitalized today because he had to have emergency throat surgery

Allan Mayer, Kelly spokesperson, said that doctors drained an abscess on one of Kelly’s tonsils on Tuesday and that the singer will be “laid up indefinitely” at Chicago’s Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

Mayer says Kelly had been complaining of throat pain recently and was rushed to the hospital after a throat exam.