Florence Welch of Florence & The Machine revealed in a new interview that she had died once due to an ectopic pregnancy and had to undergo emergency life-saving surgery.
“Dog Day is over” hitmaker told the Guardian on Saturday about his “devastating” experience.
“The closest thing I could ever die was the closest thing I could die for,” she revealed to the outlet. “And I felt like I had passed through this door, and it was just full of women, screaming.”
According to Mayo Clinic, ectopic pregnancy “occurs when a fertilized egg is implanted and grows outside the main cavity of the uterus. It can cause severe abdominal or pelvic pain with vaginal bleeding, extreme creepiness and other symptoms.
Welch, now 39, said she found herself pregnant at age 37 with her guitarist boyfriend who was off on Again, with an identity she chose to keep her private life in 2023.
The “Never Let Me Go” singer was scheduled for the Cornwall Music Festival headline at the time.
However, on her show day, Welch recalls that she felt sick and painful, looking pale, and bleeding severely. Her doctor advised that she be checked at that point after her performance.
She returned to London to meet her doctor. The doctor discovered that her fallopian tube had burst.
“I had a can of coke blood in my abdomen,” Welch added in an interview.
The diva had to undergo emergency surgery to remove the tube.
The experience sparked Welch’s primitive urge to try to “run away” during the procedure, but she said she “can’t go anywhere,” adding later, “I was very embarrassed that (she) was causing a fuss.”
“It was an animal instinct. Run, but inside me there was a woman I had never met before.
“I think the sound came out of me was like an injured animal or something,” she added emotionally. “And that was it.”
Welch was scheduled to perform at another festival at the same time as her health issues.
“If I got to that plane, I would have been on a stretcher or worse,” she recalled.
As Welch reflected more about the trauma of losing a baby, she once talked about how she once felt that her first miscarriage was a normal part of her pregnancy.
“I spoke to the doctors and they are generally not dangerous. They are devastating, but not dangerous,” she said.
Welch’s latest revelation about what she went through comes years after she suddenly cancelled a series of UK tour dates in August 2023, shocking fans.
Originally, the cancellation was believed to be due to a leg injury, but she later shared that the surgery “saved (her) life” was due to reasons that “it still didn’t feel strong enough.”
“And I’m closing out my dance fever tour in Lisbon and Malaga (maybe I’m not jumping that much, but I can do it for me),” the “free” singer continued. “It’s enough to say they want songs to be less accurate in their predictions. But creativity is a way of coping, and myths is a way of making sense.”
In her previous post, Welch concluded, “And Dave Fever’s dark fairy tale with all that strange prophecy will now provide me with a lot of needed strength and catharsis.”
