The Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan has been hospitalised.
MacGowan’s spouse, Victoria Mary Clarke, took to Twitter yesterday (December 5) to announce the singer’s return to hospital, asking followers to “please send prayers and healing vibes” to the artist. “[MacGowan is] in hospital again and really hoping to get out asap”, Clarke added.
Please ship prayers and therapeutic vibes to @ShaneMacGowan in hospital once more and actually hoping to get out asap!! Thank you 🙏 pic.twitter.com/n4TUCHCVOq
— @victoriamary (@Victoriamary) December 5, 2022
Clarke elaborated on the well being replace – which was accompanied by a photograph of MacGowan smiling – in an interview with The Irish Mirror. She revealed that the singer had been admitted to hospital final Friday (December 2), and that she stays hopeful he’ll be discharged someday this week.
Clarke added that she thinks MacGowan is “a bit frustrated” by this newest stint in hospital. “He finds it very frustrating”, she mentioned. “He wants to get out.” Despite his frustrations, Clarke assured followers that she thinks MacGowan will get better, telling them to not “get too worried” and that she’s “sure he’ll be fine.”
While the precise explanation for his latest hospitalisation is unknown, MacGowan has been out and in of medical look after the previous few years, courting again to a 2015 pelvis harm that left him wheelchair-bound and with continued mobility points because of this. That identical 12 months, the singer acquired tooth implants, following oral and dentistry issues stemming from his years-long wrestle with substance abuse.
Last 12 months, MacGowan broke his knee throughout a fall at his house. Clarke mentioned on the time that the harm left him in mattress and with out an urge for food for days. The singer himself has been open about his struggles with drug and alcohol dependancy, which date again to his teenage years. Speaking with Spectator in an interview earlier this 12 months, MacGowan mentioned: “I am glad to be alive, so I’m grateful to wake up.”
“I have beautiful carers who come and get me out of the bed and into the lime green chair… Sometimes I end up in hospital. If I don’t end up in hospital, I thank Jesus and His Holy Mother and all the saints and angels”, he added.
In April of final 12 months MacGowan launched his first-ever artwork e book, The Eternal Buzz And The Crock Of Gold. It featured sketches and handwritten lyrics, alongside candid pictures of the singer with the likes of Nick Cave, Bob Dylan, Pete Doherty, and Bryan Adams.
More just lately, BBC Radio 2 announced this month that it will play The Pogues‘ Christmas song ‘Fairytale Of New York’ with out its homophobic slur for the primary time.