Kingsley Russell: Last News

showbiz gossip straight to your inbox with the Daily Star's FREE newsletterNew witness reports have said that R&B singer Aaliyah was "drugged" and "did not want to get on the plane" that took her life.Aaliyah died in a plane crash on her way back from her Rock The Boat music video shoot in the Bahamas in 2001.The singer died when she was only 22 alongside eight others, including pilot, Luis Morales III.Kingsley Russell, whose family drove Aaliyah to the airport, saw the singer moments before she died.Although only 13 at the time, Kingsley, now 33, claimed Aaliyah was falling asleep in the taxi on the way to the plane and did not want to get on.Speaking out for the first time in years, Kingsley said: "They took her out of the van, she didn’t

“Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah,” by music journalist Kathy Iandoli.“They took her out of the van; she didn’t even know she was getting boarded on a plane,” stated Kingsley Russell, 33, who was with Aaliyah — full name Aaliyah Dana Haughton — just before the fateful flight, the Daily Mail reported. “She went on the airplane asleep.”The then 13-year-old Russell, whose family ran a taxi company in the Abaco Islands, was in the cab as his mom drove the five-time Grammy winner and her team to the airport for their return flight to Miami.

Aaliyah was reluctant to board the flight that ultimately cost the singer’s life and had taken a sleeping pill just hours earlier, according to new claims.Kingsley Russell, whose family ran a taxi firm in the Bahamas, was with the star when his stepmother drove her team to the airport as she prepared to return to the US in August 2001.Russell was just 13-years-old and worked as a baggage carrier as the singer prepared to return home.However, he now claims that the singer refused to board the plane when she first saw it and went back to sleep in the car driven by his stepmother, telling her team she had a headache.Aaliyah, who is said to have passed out in the back of the cab, was allegedly carried onto the plane while sleeping, despite her