{"id":533472,"date":"2026-07-05T00:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T00:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/533472\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T00:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T00:35:08","slug":"lionel-richie-speaks-out-following-health-scare-that-left-him-hospitalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/533472\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Richie Speaks Out Following Health Scare That Left Him Hospitalized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260704_65887e31e4f047969a586fe2b6b6ed62\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:2790bd78-e049-4f22-8eb5-9273e6079bda\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/65887e31e4f047969a586fe2b6b6ed62_md.jpg\" alt=\"main-lionel-richie-getty-1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/lionel-richie\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lionel Richie<\/a> has spoken out for the first time following the mid-show health scare that sent him to the hospital on June 24.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;All Night Long&#8221; hitmaker took to Instagram to share performance photos from his Pittsburgh and Detroit concerts, telling fans he&#8217;s &#8220;doing well&#8221; and thankful for all the love he&#8217;s received.<\/p>\n<p>Waiting for your permission to load the Instagram Media.<\/p>\n<p>And, he ended the post by confirming he is headed to Toronto for his next gig.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As we told you, Lionel\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/06\/25\/lionel-richie-cuts-concert-short-after-falling-ill-onstage-in-minnesota\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cut his performance short<\/a>\u00a0at the Grand Casino Arena in St. Paul, Minnesota on June 24 after saying he felt &#8220;dizzy&#8221; and &#8220;strange.&#8221; He was then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/06\/25\/lionel-richie-sent-to-hospital-by-ambulance\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sent to the hospital<\/a> and treated for his symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>Lionel was ultimately ordered by docs to take it easy, causing him to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/06\/26\/lionel-richie-postpones-concerts-after-health-scare-during-minnesota-show\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">postpone<\/a> his Chicago and Columbus, Ohio tour dates.<\/p>\n<p>But, he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/07\/01\/lionel-richie-back-on-stage-after-hospitalization\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">back in his groove<\/a> Tuesday night in Pittsburgh &#8230; and it looks like he has no plans of slowing down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lionel Richie has spoken out for the first time following the mid-show health scare that sent him to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-533472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}