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Singer Usher endured a huge scare after a pool mishap that left his son Usher Raymond V hospitalized.
Usher’s five-year-old son was rushed to the intensive care unit of an Atlanta hospital after a horrific swimming pool accident.
Usher Raymond V nearly drowned after getting his arm wedged into drain of the family swimming pool 6 p.m. Monday evening, TMZ reported.
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The child’s aunt and maid had tried unsuccessfully to free the child, who had been trying to retrieve a toy that fell into the drain, before a pair of workmen managed to free the boy, sources told the gossip web site.
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Usher and Usher Raymond V hit Manhattan in 2011.
He was reportedly given CPR and taken by ambulance to the hospital, with Usher accompanying his son.
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Though the boy is still in the hospital, doctors expect a full recovery.
The boy’s mother and Usher’s ex-wife, Tameka Foster, is currently at the hospital at her son’s bedside, according to TMZ.
Foster is still recovering from the death of a son from a previous relationship last year. Usher’s stepson, 11-year-old Kile Glover, died in July 2012 after being struck in the head in a jet ski accident on Georgia’s Lake Lanier.
