{"id":643773,"date":"2026-06-17T15:54:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T15:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/643773\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T15:54:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T15:54:21","slug":"singer-bonnie-tyler-out-of-a-coma-but-still-very-unwell-her-family-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/643773\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer Bonnie Tyler out of a coma but still \u2018very unwell,\u2019 her family says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Raspy-voiced pop singer Bonnie Tyler has emerged from a monthlong coma but continues to be \u201cvery unwell\u201d and in intensive care at a hospital in Portugal, her family said in a statement Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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Tyler, best known for belting out the 1980s power ballad \u201cTotal Eclipse of the Heart,\u201d had been placed in a medically induced coma<\/a> last month after undergoing emergency surgery to treat a perforated intestine.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough her condition is improving it is a slow process,\u201d Tyler\u2019s family said in a statement. \u201cHer doctors remain confident that she will make a good recovery but it is going to take time.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the meantime, Tyler\u2019s shows scheduled through August have been canceled or postponed, but \u201cwe are still hopeful that our shows in the autumn will go ahead,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n

Tyler is 75 and lives with her husband, Robert Sullivan, in Faro, a city in southern Portugal.<\/p>\n

The daughter of a Welsh coal miner and a three-time Grammy nominee, Tyler first hit the charts in the late 1970s with a string of singles including \u201cIt\u2019s a Heartache\u201d and \u201cMore Than a Lover.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tyler was dubbed \u201cthe female Rod Stewart\u201d because of her distinctive gritty voice. Her career took off in the 1980s when she teamed up with producer Jim Steinman, who wrote her biggest hits, \u201cTotal Eclipse of the Heart\u201d and \u201cHolding Out for a Hero.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTotal Eclipse of the Heart,\u201d which came out in 1983, made it to No. 1 on both the U.S. and U.K. charts. The bombastic ballad then became a karaoke favorite. And at the time of the 2024 solar eclipse, the song soared to No. 1 on the U.S. iTunes sales chart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raspy-voiced pop singer Bonnie Tyler has emerged from a monthlong coma but continues to be \u201cvery unwell\u201d and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-643773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}