Poison lead singer Bret Michaels was admitted to hospital in Nashville on Thursday just before the group was scheduled to take the stage as part of the stadium tour alongside Def Leppard, Mtley Cre and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts.
According to TMZ, his bandmates took to the stage to make the announcement and apologized for having to cancel his performance.
On the 10th anniversary of his brain hemorrhage in 2020, which fell the night he was unmasked as the banana in the third season of The Masked Singer, Michael revealed that he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age six.
“These are the roses and thorns of my life,” he said at the time in an interview with People magazine. “I’m very grateful. I celebrate the birthday as being on the good side of dirt and surviving. I never celebrate cerebral hemorrhage.
“But how ironic that literally 10 years are left by the time the show airs, it aired at the exact time they were operating at night in my brain. Who knew all this would end the circle on the 22nd.” April? The children’s lives, my life, I had no idea that any of this would be aligned, “Michaels added.
The duration of Michaels’ absence is unknown; however, the tour will continue with shows in Florida on Saturday and Mississippi on Sunday.
Bret Michaels’ state of health
In a recent update on its history, TMZ claimed that a source close to Michaels claimed that he may have experienced a negative reaction to a drug related to the COVID medication and that his diabetes may have caused the reaction.
Due to COVID-19, the extensive US tour was delayed from 2020 to 2021. “To all our loyal fans, we wanted to let you know that today we learned that the tour will move to 2022,” he said. say the band in a Facebook post in May 2021.
The mega-tour finally began on June 16 in Atlanta, Georgia, and is scheduled to last all summer before ending on September 9 in Las Vegas.