Donald Glover, on Saturday, opened up to fans as to why he canceled his 2024 New World Tour.<\/p>\n
Glover, who performs under the stage name Childish Gambino, told fans during a performance at Tyler, the Creator\u2019s Camp Flog Gnaw that it was a stroke that forced him to end his globe-spanning tour after just 18 shows.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI had a really bad pain in my head in Louisiana, and I did the show anyway. I couldn\u2019t really see well, so when we went to Houston, I went to the hospital and the doctor was like, \u2018You had a stroke,’\u201d Glover explained, per clips shared on social media<\/a>. \u201cAnd the first thing I thought was like, \u2018Oh, here I am still copying Jamie Foxx.\u2019 That\u2019s really like the second thing. The first thing was like, \u2018I\u2019m letting everybody down.’\u201d<\/p>\n Glover added that not long after the stroke, he had another serious health scare when doctors discovered an irregularity in his heart.<\/p>\n \u201cThey found a hole in my heart,\u201d Glover said. \u201cSo I had this surgery, and then I had to have another surgery.\u201d<\/p>\n He continued, \u201cThey say everybody has two lives, and the second life starts when you realize you have one. You should be living your life how you want. If we have to do this again, it can only get better.\u201d<\/p>\n Back in 2024, Glover released a since-deleted statement<\/a> on X explaining his reason for canceling in more vague terms, sharing that he had an \u201cailment\u201d that required \u201cmore tests\u201d and a surgery.<\/p>\n \u201cI want nothing more than to bring this show to the fans and perform,\u201d he wrote at the time. \u201cUntil then, thanks for love, privacy, and support.\u201d<\/p>\n Best of Variety<\/p>\n Sign up for Variety’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Glover, on Saturday, opened up to fans as to why he canceled his 2024 New World Tour.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,147782,134,8732,8731],"class_list":{"0":"post-304773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-donald-glover","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-the-creator","14":"tag-tyler"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}