{"id":629992,"date":"2026-05-08T01:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/629992\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T01:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:25:09","slug":"singer-bonnie-tyler-placed-in-medically-induced-coma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/629992\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer Bonnie Tyler Placed In Medically Induced Coma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/total-eclipse-of-the-heart\/\" id=\"auto-tag_total-eclipse-of-the-heart\" data-tag=\"total-eclipse-of-the-heart\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Total Eclipse Of The Heart<\/a> singer <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/bonnie-tyler\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bonnie-tyler\" data-tag=\"bonnie-tyler\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bonnie Tyler<\/a> has been placed in a medically induced coma at a Portugal hospital, according to local news outlets there, with her condition \u201cvery guarded\u201d following earlier reports of recovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe 74-year-old Tyler was been hospitalized in Faro, Portugal, where she has a home, sometime around April 30 for emergency surgery for a perforated intestine. Her official <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bonnietyler.com\/news\/statement-on-bonnies-health\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> confirmed the hospitalization last night with a statement saying that the \u201csurgery went well and she is now recuperating.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAccording to media outlets including the BBC and Portuguese daily paper\u00a0Correio da Manha, Tyler\u2019s condition worsened today and she has been placed in a medically induced coma and is on a ventilator. Tyler\u2019s representatives confirmed the reports to the outlets, stating that \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.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe reps said they will issue a further statement \u201cwhen we are able to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCorreio da Manha reports that Tyler\u2019s condition is \u201cvery guarded,\u201d which indicates a serious or life-threatening illness or injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDeadline has not been able to confirm the Correio da Manha report.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-967751274.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"687\" width=\"1024\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tBonnie Tyler in 1983 <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJean-Jacques Bernier\/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBorn Gaynor Hopkins in 1951 in Wales, the husky-voiced Tyler hit the U.S. charts in 1977 with her single \u201cIt\u2019s a Heartache,\u201d then reached the pinnacle of her career in 1983 with the Jim Steinman-penned smash \u201cTotal Eclipse of the Heart.\u201d She and Steinman collaborated again the following year for the single \u201cHolding Out for a Hero,\u201d which became a hit after its including on the soundtrack for the 1984 film\u00a0Footloose.\u00a0  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTyler has continued recording and releasing new music over the decades since her MTV Era heyday, most recently 2021\u2019s The Best Is Yet To Come. She was appointed\u00a0Member of the Order of the British Empire\u00a0(MBE) in the\u00a02022 Birthday Honours\u00a0for services to music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Total Eclipse Of The Heart singer Bonnie Tyler has been placed in a medically induced coma at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[204942,88,204944],"class_list":["post-629992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-bonnie-tyler","tag-entertainment","tag-total-eclipse-of-the-heart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}