So much for the Love Letter Tour… Foreclosed Foddler R. Kelly is “laid up undefinitely” after undergoing emergency throat surgery this week.
Doctors at Chicago’s Northwestern Memorial Hospital drained an abscess on one of Kelly’s tonsils on Tuesday, according to Kelly’s longtime publicist Allan Mayer. Mayer says the Grammy winner, 44, had been complaining of throat pain recently and was rushed to the hospital after a throat exam uncovered the infection.
The last time R. Kelly got overexposed, he ended up on trial for lewd acts with a minor — of course, that won’t stop Uncle Chester from spilling all of the secrets trapped away in a dark corner of his closet on the pages of a new tell-all memoir.
Uncle Chester’s snatching a page from the Book of Motown. R. Kelly’s latest single gets a vintage video treatment to match the throwback sound of the song. The single is the first from the controversial crooner’s forthcoming album, Love Letter.
Eh — we liked this video better when it was Maxwell’s “Fistful of Tears.”
The story of R. Kelly’s life will stay “Trapped In The Closet” no longer: He’s writing a book. The reportedly illiterate singer and producer, 42, is working on an autobiography with celebrity author David Ritz that will “tell it like it is,” he said in a statement Wednesday.
The book promises to addresss all his drama, including the best-seller’s child pornography scandal that ended with an acquittal in 2008. The story will include Kelly’s early life in crime-ridden Chicago, the loss of his mother, and his rise from struggling singer to selling 34 million albums.
“I’m writing this book as Robert, not R. Kelly,” the singer says in a statement. “I’m tired of being misunderstood. I will show you the tears, fears, and sweat. I will open my heart and reveal the good in my life as well as all the drama. I want to tell it like it is.”
The autobiography is untitled right now and scheduled for release by Tavis Smiley’s SmileyBooks in 2011.
R. Kelly is eager to record a duet with Amy Winehouse.
The controversial singer — who was cleared of child porn charges in 2008 — has revealed that he is a big fan of the troubled Grammy winner and would love to put together a track with her.
“Amy Winehouse. ‘Rehab’. I love that song,” Kelly told Metro. “I’d definitely love to work with Amy Winehouse. I love the ‘Rehab’ song. She has balls to do that. I love that. I love that she kept it real and I would love to do a song with her.”
