Hospital dash Poor Pink’s shock health crisis, plus Her heart goes on Céline Dion’s special guy
The star sets the record straight about her sickness
She’s known for her breathtaking Cirque du Soleil-style aerial displays, but the most heart-stopping moment so far on Pink’s Beautiful Trauma World Tour came shortly before a Sydney show last week, when she was suddenly rushed to hospital in “excruciating pain”.
After being diagnosed with a serious gastric virus, the devastated pop star, 38, was forced to postpone a string of Aussie concerts to recuperate and look after her two kids, Willow, seven, and Jameson, one, who have also been unwell.
Apologising to her fans, a heartbroken Pink explained, “A lot of you know how physical my shows are, and that I don’t just stand in front a microphone and sing. I flip, dance, fly, harness, silk and scream my way through a total s***-show of awesomeness. So I need to be physically healthy and well in order to perform this show.”
The previous week, the “What About Us” singer caused controversy when she was spotted on the beach in Byron Bay after postponing another Sydney show. But Pink baulked at reports she was slacking off, insisting she’d “already been sick twice” on her tour and was unable to “push through” this time.
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“This break in Byron has been scheduled since 2017, as a way to get outside the hotel and the winter, and have some time with my children,” she said, adding that what her beach pictures don’t show are “two doctor visits on two consecutive days, antibiotics, steroids, Vicks, nose spray, throat spray, more steroids, NyQuil, a screaming baby in the middle of the night, every night, while Mama gives him warm baths and tells her daughter everything is fine”.
A national icon and honorary Aussie ever since her record-breaking 58-date tour of the country in 2009, Pink – real name Alecia Moore – was gutted to disappoint her fans on the other side of the Tasman, but we’re told her health crisis will have “no impact at all” on her scheduled gigs in Auckland and Dunedin next month.
Most heartbreaking for the singer, however, has been her children’s illnesses. Pink had hesitated to take her kids on the 13-month tour, acknowledging that Willow was “leaving behind friends, school and activities”.
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