Jesy’s 50 painkiller jabs to go on stage
Little Mix strains go back years
SINGER Jesy Nelson claimed she was once injected with painkillers FIFTY times so that she could go on stage with Little Mix.
The star said she felt like a “robot” and was expected never to take time off to rest or recover from illness.
Jesy made the allegations in two autobiographies of the band.
The comments were not reported when the books came out in 2012 and 2016 but have come to attention after Jesy quit the band on health grounds.
The 29- year- old said the jabs happened before a massive TV gig on music guru Simon Cowell’s show America’s Got Talent in 2015.
She wrote: “On the day, my shoulder went and I couldn’t move. In the end I had something like 50 injections and my back was smothered in bruises.
“Before the show, when I was getting my hair and make-up done, people were feeding me coffee to wake me up.
“I was so out of it I can’t remember anything much about the performance, just that on stage I couldn’t get my balance. It was awful, the worst thing I’ve had to do.
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“In a normal job you can take a day off and no one has a go at you, whereas in this job if you miss a performance, everyone’s writing articles, commenting on social media and throwing abuse.”
A year earlier, Jesy says she was given antibiotics so powerful they made her vomit so she could keep performing while suffering with a tooth problem.
Jesy also revealed that, while worried about her mum’s serious heart condition, she became so stressed that an infected ear started to bleed.
She added: “The pain got so bad I was in bed screaming. What’s weird in this job is that people don’t seem to believe we get ill like everyone else does – or that the people close to us get ill and we need to be with them.”
Jesy opened up about her struggles in Little Mix’s autobiographies – Ready to Fly: Our Official Story and Our World: Our Official Autobiography.
She repeatedly told of how cruel trolls attacked her over her weight and how the group faced a relentless schedule.
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Anne Pinnock, 29, and Jade Thirlwall, 27, have said they will carry on with Little Mix’s 2021 tour “with or without Jesy”.
Announcing she was quitting last Monday, Jesy said: “I find the constant pressure of being in a girl group and living up to expectations very hard.
“I need to spend some time with the people I love, doing things that make me happy. I’m ready to embark on a new chapter in my life – I’m not sure what it’s going to look like right now, but I hope you’ll still be there to support me.
“Most of all I want to say thank you to Jade, Perrie and Leigh-Anne for creating some of the most amazing memories I’ll never forget.”