{"id":479104,"date":"2026-06-15T22:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T22:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/479104\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T22:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T22:52:08","slug":"singer-bonnie-tyler-has-woken-from-induced-coma-but-remains-seriously-ill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/479104\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer Bonnie Tyler has woken from \u2018induced coma\u2019 but remains \u2018seriously ill\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PExwGCGfAPLnCMYI\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cBonnie has been put into an induced coma by her doctors to aid her recovery. We know that you all wish her well and ask for privacy at this difficult time, please. We will issue a further statement when we are able to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"PExwGCGfAPLnCMYI\" style=\"display:none\">The day before, it was revealed that the Holding Out for a Hero legend was rushed to hospital for \u201cemergency intestinal surgery\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PExwGCGfAPLnCMYI\" style=\"display:none\">A statement on Tyler\u2019s website read: \u201cWe are very sorry to announce that Bonnie has been admitted to hospital in Faro, Portugal, where she has a home, for emergency intestinal surgery. The surgery went well, and she is now recuperating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PExwGCGfAPLnCMYI\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe know that all of her family, friends, and fans will be concerned about this news and will be wishing her well for a full and swift recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"PExwGCGfAPLnCMYI\" style=\"display:none\">Bonnie \u2013 who has split her time between Faro and her native South Wales for some time \u2013 has enjoyed a hugely successful career, earning three Grammy nominations and being appointed an MBE in 2022 for services to music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PExwGCGfAPLnCMYI\" style=\"display:none\">And the God Gave Love to You performer previously insisted that she had no plans to retire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PExwGCGfAPLnCMYI\" style=\"display:none\">Bonnie \u2013 who is known for her distinctive husky voice \u2013 told the Sunday Mirror newspaper\u2019s Notebook magazine: \u201cI started singing when I was 17 and I never thought I\u2019d still be doing it at this age. I\u2019ve slowed down a little bit, but I know now that I will never retire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PExwGCGfAPLnCMYI\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cEven though I was so lucky because I was in Portugal when the first lockdown was announced, by the end of it, I\u2019d had enough. I was going crazy. I needed to get back out there on the road!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cBonnie has been put into an induced coma by her doctors to aid her recovery. We know that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[200503,3013,94411,15974,156,5504,71,6871,29418,94410,112549,111,139,69,10715,23419,4625,6290,24465,8211],"class_list":["post-479104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-bonnie","tag-but","tag-coma","tag-emergency","tag-entertainment","tag-following","tag-from","tag-has","tag-ill","tag-induced","tag-intestinal","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-remains","tag-seriously","tag-singer","tag-surgery","tag-tyler","tag-woken"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}