A default judgement against R. Kelly was cleared Wednesday after his lawyers said he didn't respond to a lawsuit because he can't read, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

Cook County Judge Moira Johnson on Wednesday reinstated the lawsuit filed by a woman identified as "H.W." who claims she entered a sexual relationship with Kelly in 1998, when she was 16.

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Johnson last month reportedly entered a default judgment in favor of the plaintiff after the lawsuit was not responded to.

The judge changed course Wednesday after Kelly’s new attorneys, Raed Shalabi and Zaid Abdallah, argued that Kelly never responded to that lawsuit because he is illiterate.

The next court date in the case was set for June 19, according to the Sun-Times.

The woman who filed the lawsuit is one of four people Kelly is accused of sexually abusing in a separate criminal case.