Following an ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage, Florence Welch has shared how she lost a fallopian tube during the process.
“My doctor’s insistence that I come in saved my life.” “The closest I came to making life was the closest I came to death,” said the Florence + the Machine front woman, “I felt like I had stepped through this door, and it was just full of women, screaming.”
In a new The Guardian profile, the superstar singer/songwriter talked about the miscarriage she had during the summer of 2023. Getting pregnant almost immediately after she and her boyfriend decided to try for a baby, an ectopic pregnancy resulted in the rupture of one of her fallopian.
Miscarrying shortly before she was scheduled to perform at a festival in Cornwall, the now 39-year old added “I took some ibuprofen and stepped out on stage.” “I didn’t want to go for the scan.” “I thought, ‘I’ve done this show, I’m fine, I can cope.’ But my doctor’s insistence that I come in saved my life.”
During her medical appointment that the British-born songstress learned of the rupture and was rushed into emergency surgery. Sharing that doctors could not save her fallopian tube, Welch reflecting on the experience “I had a Coke can’s worth of blood in my abdomen.”
It was Florence’s experience that helped influence her upcoming album, Everybody Scream, which is schedule for release this Halloween.
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Author: Saul Goode
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