The price of fame: a stroke as a gift
It seems that the life of a rap and comedy star is not as fun as it seems. In a revelation that surely ruined the festive atmosphere of Tyler, the Creator’s Camp Flog Gnaw, the one-man band Donald Glover (or Childish Gambino for his friends who buy his records) dropped the bomb: canceling his much-publicized “The New World Tour” was not an artistic whim, but rather that he almost said goodbye to this world due to a stroke cerebral. What a detail, right? While his fans cried over non-refundable tickets, he played poker with the grim reaper.
Upstage at the majestic Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, Glover decided that a concert was the perfect place for a dramatic monologue about his health. With the irony that characterizes him, he narrated how a simple very bad headache in Louisiana became the most terrifying anecdote of his life. “I couldn’t see very well,” he confessed. Because, of course, when your vision blurs in the middle of a show, the logical thing is not to cancel and carry on as if nothing had happened, until a doctor in Houston tells you as casually as possible: “You had a stroke.” One would expect that, after such a diagnosis, the first thing would be to rest, but no, our hero preferred to wait to tell it at a festival. Priorities.
A hole in the heart and it is not metaphorical
As if facing a cerebrovascular event were not enough for one year, the doctors, playing at being medical detectives, discovered that the artist had a hole in his heart. Not the emotional one that leaves a bad review, but a real one, the kind that requires surgery. And not one, but two surgical interventions. Because when life gives you lemons, sometimes it throws them at your head with force. Glover, with enviable stoicism, recounted this clinical viacrucis as if he were telling the plot of one of his films, only with fewer guaranteed happy endings and more tubes connected to his body.
After this unwanted medical tour, the R&B singer and actor had to step away from the stage to, you know, the mundane: learn to walk and talk again. But all of this gave him a deep, almost philosophical perspective that he shared with his audience. Quoting a phrase that sounds like an inspirational Instagram meme, he reflected: “They say we all have two lives, and the second life begins when you realize you have one.” How deep. Almost as deep as the hole in the organ that symbolizes love.
He thanked his followers for their affection, saying that the life he has lived with them has been a “great blessing.” It is touching, if one ignores that this “blessing” almost killed him with stress. Although he doesn’t have musical performances scheduled for now (logical, after your brain goes on strike), he stays busy. He is preparing for the “Community” movie, where he will reprise his role as Troy Barnes, and for a possible solo film by Lando Calrissian in the “Star Wars” franchise. Because, apparently, traveling to a galaxy far, far away is less stressful than a musical tour of the United States.
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