60s icon Marianne ‘stable’ in hospital after testing positive
Marianne Faithfull is being treated in hospital for coronavirus.
The 73-year- old British singer, who became a 1960s icon, is currently in a stable condition, her manager said.
She was taken to hospital on Tuesday following a period of self-isolation, according to a friend.
in a statement, Miss Faithfull’s manager Francois ravard confirmed the singer is being treated for Covid-19, adding: ‘She is stable and responding to treatment. We all wish her well and a full and speedy recovery.’
Penny arcade, a performer and friend, said she had spoken to Miss Faithfull a week ago when she was ‘hiding out from the virus’.
She said it would be a tragedy for the musician to be ‘taken down by a virus’ having survived so much in life.
‘Marianne Faithfull is in hospital in London having tested positive for Covid-19. She went in this past Tuesday. Please pray for her!’ Miss arcade wrote on Facebook.
‘She has withstood and survived so much in her life – including being Marianne Faithfull – that to be taken down by a virus would be such a tragedy.’ Miss arcade, whose real name is Susana Ventura, said she had written to Miss Faithfull’s ex-husband John Dunbar, who told her: ‘So far so good’, but added that his ex-wife could ‘barely speak’.
Miss Faithfull rose to fame in 1964 at the age of 17 with her hit cover of The rolling Stones’ as Tears Go By.
She went on to have a high-profile affair with frontman Mick Jagger while married to Mr Dunbar – and having just given birth to their son.
Miss Faithfull has battled a number of health conditions. Throughout the 1970s, she struggled with heroin addiction and anorexia, while a severe bout of laryngitis seriously damaged her vocal cords. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006 and revealed in 2007 that she had, at that point, been living with liver disease hepatitis C for 12 years. She broke her hip in 2014.