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SINGER LADY GAGA has cancelled the remaining 10 dates of her current European tour due to her suffering ‘severe pain’.
The 31-year-old American musician, real name Stefani Germanotta, suffers from fibromyalgia, a condition which can cause intense pain all over the body.
Two UK shows are among those that have been cancelled, in London and Manchester.
The other venues to miss out are Cologne, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Paris, Zurich, and Berlin.
— Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) February 3, 2018Lady Gaga / Twitter
“Unfortunately Lady Gaga is suffering from severe pain that has materially impacted her ability to perform live,” a statement released by the singer says.
Last night, with strong support from her medical team, (she) made the tough decision to immediately come off the road.
The Poker Face singer added that she is “extremely sorry and deeply saddened” that she will not be able to fulfil the remaining tour dates.
Refunds will be available to ticket holders from next Tuesday, 6 February.
The European leg of the current Joanne World Tour had already been rescheduled once previously due to the singer’s condition.
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Watched her documentary on Netflix. She’s a trooper really. She’s an amazing ambassador for fibromyalgia and other invisible illnesses and I wasn’t a fan before I watched it. Hope she gets better soon.
@Becca Laste: invisible illnesses are the most difficult to detect.
@Becca Laste: she came across as a totally self obsessed egomaniac idi*t. She was absolutely ridiculous. I admire that she is classically trained unlike most pop stars and that she suffers from this condition and she has style but her personality is rancid
@Chris Finn: hope you’re ok hun x
@Becca Laste:
@Becca Laste: Hahaha brilliant!
@Becca Laste: agreed
she knows how everyone’s ears feel now
LOLOL Hilarious comment !!
On a purely human level I hope she finds relief. I believe modern “reefer” is excellent for it.
Saving us severe pain. Very altruistic.
@George Salter: why are in to musical S&M with a view to a buying a concert ticket to immerse yourself in pure unadulterated auditory pain and deny another a ticket to prevent them suffering the same fate? How altruistic of you George.. ;)
@Billy Connelly: S&M is illegal even with consent in the UK. I imagine that the same rules apply here. Im just upholding the law :p
@George Salter: I know such a shame isn’t. I now have an image of you in a police outfit “upholding the law” waving your trunchon now. Grrr
Bit of good news to start the day thank God.
@Niccolo Saccho: ah don’t worry in 10 mins you will be back to your usual miserable self…
@frank murphy:
It’s in our DNA Frank.
@Niccolo Saccho: yours maybe, mine no.
And this relevant because.. who cares
@OCallaghan TP: probabaly European based fans of hers who had tickets to the shows.
@OCallaghan TP: The 3,500 people who read the article probably care.
@OCallaghan TP: because someone hugely famous pulled out of something they’ve contractually committed to causing problems with accommodation and flight costs because of a relatively serious illness that is the highest viewed article this morning.
Does that close your question on why it’s relevant?
According to researchers in Tel Aviv, in a study of 48 women with fibromyalgia 70% had the condition reversed. see http://www.assafh.org/sites/en/clinic/Hifrbaric/Pages/default.aspx
@Brian Lynch: there is no cure for fibromyalgia. Any claims by clinics of doing so are irresponsible. Let them submit their claims for peer review.
That’s strange, I tend to suffer severe pain whenever I hear her music too.
In other news,dozens of yemeni children killed by Saudi air strikes!!!
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