Between her highly effective voice and her spectacular aerial stunts, Pink is a power to be reckoned with — however offstage, she’s confronted her share of well being battles.
The “Who Knew” singer canceled two performances in Tacoma, Washington in October 2023, citing “household medical points” that wanted her “quick consideration” by way of an Instagram assertion.
Pink (whose actual identify is Alecia Moore) didn’t specify what the scenario was, however days later she postponed two extra reveals in Vancouver, Canada, because of a respiratory an infection.
“My physician has suggested that I’m unable to carry out on the Vancouver reveals on Friday and Saturday,” she wrote by way of Instagram.
Maintain scrolling for a glance again at Pink’s well being struggles through the years:
April 2020
Pink revealed that she and her then-3-year-old son, Jameson, whom she shares with husband Carey Hart, had lately examined optimistic for COVID-19. (The duo additionally share daughter Willow, whom they welcomed in 2011.)
Throughout an Instagram Stay chat along with her pal and writer Jen Pastiloff, Pink stated she and Jameson had been “actually, actually sick” and she or he’d “by no means prayed extra in my life.”
Later that month, the Grammy winner additionally spoke to Ellen DeGeneres concerning the expertise. “It was terrifying at one level,” Pink informed the daytime discuss present host in the course of the digital chat. “I’ve had actually, actually unhealthy bronchial asthma to the purpose the place typically I find yourself within the hospital. I wakened in the midst of the night time and I couldn’t breathe. I wanted my nebulizer for the primary time in 30 years. I couldn’t operate with out it. That’s once I began to get actually scared.”
Pink later revealed that she rewrote her will when she had the virus.
“It was actually, actually unhealthy. … I believed it was over for us,” she stated throughout a Could 2021 look on the Coronary heart Radio present. “I known as my greatest pal and I stated, ‘I simply want you to inform Willow how a lot I like her.’”
December 2020
Pink recovered from COVID, however the virus was not the final well being scare she confronted in 2020.
“As if surviving covid wasn’t sufficient for this poop sandwich of a 12 months!” the Pennsylvania native captioned a photograph of herself in a health care provider’s workplace. “Properly, I received my stitches out from drying that wine glass, that went properly. Then I recovered from my very first staph an infection for no motive (cry for assist?) (proper knee was lonely?) so I believed I’d fracture my ankle!”
Pink added that she’d injured her ankle whereas “working down the steps.”
November 2021
The “So What” musician opened up about her ongoing restoration from hip surgical procedure.
“It was a brutal first week filled with tears and ache med despair, ulcers from meds and fixed fevers,” Pink wrote by way of Instagram earlier than thanking her husband for taking excellent care of her. “He introduced me espresso within the bathe, lugged round my 100 pound CPM contraptions all over the place I went, dried my tears, cooked me oatmeal, saved monitor of my meds, received me my cellphone charger, plugged in my compression machines, took my temp, made the mattress, and talked me off the ledge.”
Pink added that it was “humbling for a really unbiased particular person like myself to be rendered bodily unable and dependent,” however stated she was “studying the reward of accepting assist.”
Could 2022
Along with sharing updates about her bodily well-being, Pink has additionally been candid about her psychological well being.
“I used to get fairly terrible panic assaults and I didn’t know what was taking place. I didn’t have anyone to speak to about it and I didn’t know what to do,” she shared in an Instagram video. “I might really feel like I used to be having strokes, like, stroke signs, it was terrifying.”
The performer famous that after “various EKGs” confirmed that there was nothing bodily improper along with her, she started bolstering her “non secular toolbox” to take care of the panic assaults.
“I began seeing a therapist, after which I began doing all these items,” she stated, mentioning “full moon ceremonies for girls solely” and meditation. “I began studying all these steps on find out how to deal with myself. I’d by no means been taught find out how to deal with myself.”
February 2023
Pink informed Selection that she gained 36 lbs in the course of the COVID-19 lockdown and struggled to lose it immediately because of “not simply the hip surgical procedure, however double disc substitute in my neck.”
Regardless of the lengthy restoration course of, the songwriter stated that she felt just like the “bionic lady” post-operation and had since shed the load. “I’m stronger than I’ve ever been in my life,” she stated.
October 2023
Days after canceling two Tacoma, Washington reveals because of “household medical points,” Pink postponed two extra reveals in Vancouver, Canada, because of a well being disaster of her personal.
“I’m deeply sorry to share that I’ve a respiratory an infection and my physician has suggested that I’m unable to carry out on the Vancouver reveals on Friday and Saturday,” she wrote by way of Instagram. “Stay Nation is engaged on new dates to reschedule the reveals. I’m very a lot wanting ahead to performing in Vancouver and placing on an unimaginable present for everybody. Within the meantime, I want everybody good well being and am sending numerous love. xoxo Pink.”
October 2023
Pink appeared again on the near-fatal overdose she had at age 16.
“Thanksgiving of 1995, I used to be at a rave and I overdosed,” she recalled throughout a 60 Minutes interview. “I used to be on — oh, boy — ecstasy, angel mud, crystal, every kind of issues.”
The pop star shared that the expertise satisfied her to cease doing medication. “Then I used to be out,” she stated. “Accomplished. An excessive amount of.”
Pink additionally opened up concerning the circumstances that led to her going “off the rails” as a youngster.
“Principally, I grew up in a home the place each day my dad and mom had been screaming at one another, throwing issues, they hated one another, after which I received into medication,” she defined. “I used to be promoting medication. After which I used to be kicked out of the home. I dropped out of highschool.”
