Singer Kehlani has cancelled two concerts on her world tour after being hospitalized with severe throat pain.
The 31-year-old Grammy winner said she was "unable to swallow" and was not cleared to sing, forcing the cancellation of upcoming shows in Camden, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C. Kehlani also shared photos from inside an examination room.
"After two off days feeling completely normal," Kehlani wrote in an August 26 statement on Instagram, "ive been up all night unable to swallow & in so much pain."
"I just left the hospital & am not cleared to sing for the next two shows," she added. "i’m so sorry Camden & DC."
The 41-stop Kehlani World Tour began on August 6. The "Nights Like This" and "Cruise Control" singer emphasized that her "team is working on a solution" for the cancelled dates.
"Breaks my heart to have to ever do this," Kehlani wrote. "i do everything i’m supposed to to ensure my health stays up to par & it still isn’t guaranteed."
She said she expects to resume performing in Richmond, V.A. on August 29, writing, "we will pick back up in Virginia."
Kehlani, who publicly shared her bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder diagnoses in April 2025, told Billboard in an August 20 cover story that she maintains a strict wellness routine of exercise, undisclosed medications and time in nature.
"You get in this cycle where you wake up at 6 p.m. because you were at the studio until 7 a.m.," she said. "You’ve missed a whole day of sunshine. There’s no meal. You go back to the studio at 8 p.m. You grind or die. I have to have a routine supporting my wellness so I can freaking survive."
She is also "healing" from a recent procedure to clear blocked nasal canals.
"I just had a sinus surgery from hell because I haven’t been able to breathe for seven years," she told the outlet. "Turns out my nasal canals were blocked. But this will be my first tour using my breath to my full capacity."
Severe surgical emergencies and physical trauma
Kehlani's hospitalization follows a series of public health scares for high-profile figures. In May 2026, BFFs podcaster Brianna "Chickenfry" LaPaglia underwent emergency surgery for a large ovarian cyst that twisted her organs and caused internal bleeding.
"There was a half a liter of blood in my pelvic floor," LaPaglia said in a TikTok video. "I have five incisions all over my stomach. They went in through my belly button with a camera so they could find all the blood."
Beverly Hills, 90210 alum Brian Austin Green recovered from a nearly burst appendix in April 2025.
“Last week, I started feeling some pain in my stomach,” Green said on Instagram. “I ended up going to the emergency room, and I had a perforated appendix. Not quite burst, but just before. I'm on the road to recovery. It's not an easy process. This is my first major surgery.”
In professional hockey, American Hockey League player Casey Fitzgerald received 25 stitches after a fellow player's skate blade cut his neck during a December 2024 game. His father, New Jersey Devils general manager Tom Fitzgerald, told ESPN after his recovery: "We're very lucky. I don't wish that on any parent."
Even Stevens and Kim Possible alum Christy Carlson Romano was shot in the face in February 2025 while on a trip to shoot clay pigeons for her husband Brendan Rooney's birthday.
"There was another party with us and they unsafely fired in the wrong direction and shot me in the face," Romano wrote on Instagram. "@thebrendanrooney immediately sprung into action, assessed me, and rushed me to the hospital. I was hit in 5 places, one was less than an inch from hitting me directly in my right eye."
She said a fragment remains lodged behind her eye because it is "too risky to remove surgically at this time," but that she can see normally.
"I love my daughters, husband, family, and friends so much," she added. "I saw my life flash before my eyes and I’m telling you, hug the people around you every chance you can. Life can change in an instant."
Strokes, brain aneurysms and neurological events
Oscar-winning Django Unchained actor Jamie Foxx suffered a brain bleed and stroke in Atlanta in April 2023. His sister Deidra Dixon drove him to a hospital after a doctor sent him home with a cortisone shot. He woke up on May 4 in a wheelchair and later underwent rehabilitation in Chicago.
"I was having such a bad headache, so I asked my boy, I said, ‘Listen, I need an aspirin,’” Foxx said in his 2024 Netflix special What Had Happened Was... “Before I could get the Aspirin, I went out. I don’t remember 20 days. All I can tell you is that I appreciate every prayer, because I needed every prayer.”
Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke survived two brain aneurysms while filming battle scenes. An Emmy nominee, she detailed her symptoms in a 2019 essay in The New Yorker titled "A Battle for My Life."
"I reached the toilet, sank to my knees, and proceeded to be violently, voluminously ill," Clarke wrote of a gym visit. "Meanwhile, the pain, shooting, stabbing, constricting pain, was getting worse. At some level, I knew what was happening: my brain was damaged."
Following a brain scan, she learned she suffered an "aneurysm" and an arterial rupture.
"The diagnosis was quick and ominous: a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), a life-threatening type of stroke, caused by bleeding into the space surrounding the brain," she wrote.
Clarke called the pain "unbearable" and recalled "muttering nonsense" before "the aphasia passed." She left the hospital a month later, but learned at a 2013 brain scan that a growth had "doubled in size."
"When they woke me, I was screaming in pain," she wrote of her second surgery. "The procedure had failed. I had a massive bleed and the doctors made it plain that my chances of surviving were precarious if they didn’t operate again. This time they needed to access my brain in the old-fashioned way, through my skull."
Clarke confirmed she is now "at a hundred per cent."
Rhode skincare mogul Hailey Bieber experienced a "scariest moment" during breakfast with husband Justin Bieber in March 2022, displaying stroke-like symptoms.
"Justin was like, 'Are you OK?' and I just didn't respond because I wasn't sure," she shared on YouTube. "And then he asked me again and when I went to respond, I couldn't speak. The right side of my face started drooping. I couldn't get a sentence out."
Doctors at the University of California, Los Angeles, discovered a small blood clot on her brain.
"They did some scans and they were able to see that I had suffered a small blood clot to my brain, which they labeled and categorized as something called a TIA [Transient Ischemic Attack]," she said.
The clot had "escaped" through a hole in her heart called a patent foramen ovale (PFO). Following a successful PFO closure procedure, she said she is "feeling great."
Snoop's Fatherhood: Cori and Wayne's Story star Cori Broadus, daughter of musician Snoop Dogg, suffered a "severe stroke" in January 2024. Her loved ones rushed to be by her side.
"I texted them that I just had a stroke and sent them a picture," Broadus told E! News correspondent Will Marfuggi in December 2024. "Everybody just came to my rescue. I could have went home after my stroke, but my lupus wasn't doing so well. My kidneys were failing. It was a lot going on."
Broadus said she had to work on her motor skills but is "doing great."
Long-term pain, paralysis and medical conditions
Justin Bieber experienced his own scare in June 2022 when he was diagnosed with Ramsay Hunt syndrome, forcing him to cancel his Justice World Tour.
"It is from this virus that attacks the nerve in my ear and my facial nerves and has caused my face to have paralysis," Justin explained on Instagram. "As you can see, this eye is not blinking. I can't smile on this side of my face. This nostril will not move. So, there's full paralysis on this side of my face."
He noted it became "progressively harder to eat" before the paralysis faded.
"He's doing really well," Hailey Bieber said on a June 2022 Good Morning America episode. "He's feeling a lot better. Obviously, it was just a very scary and random situation to happen, but he's going to be totally OK and I'm just grateful that he's fine."
Actor Lupita Nyong'o disclosed in 2025 that she was diagnosed with uterine fibroids, non-cancerous growths around the uterus, in 2014, the same year she won an Oscar for "12 Years a Slave."
She described "suffering in silence" for more than a decade. "When we reach puberty, we're taught periods mean pain, and that pain is simply part of being a woman," Nyong'o shared on Instagram. "We're struggling alone with something that affects us most."
Life & Beth creator Amy Schumer learned she had Cushing syndrome after internet commenters pointed out her "puffier" face in early 2025.
"The internet really came for me after doing a bunch of press, and I was like, 'OK everybody, relax,'" Schumer said on a January 2025 Call Her Daddy podcast episode. "But then doctors were chiming in in the comments and they were like, 'No no, we think something’s really up. Your face looks so crazy that we think something’s up.' And I’m like, ‘Wait, I’m getting trolled by doctors?’"
Schumer realized the syndrome, characterized by spiking cortisol levels, stemmed from steroid injections.
"Wait, I have been getting steroid injections in my scars," Schumer recalled thinking. "I had a breast reduction, a C-section, whatever, and so I was getting these steroid injections. So it gave me this thing called Cushing syndrome, which I wouldn’t have known if the internet hadn’t come for me so hard."
Writing in a February 2024 News Not Noise newsletter, Schumer said: "Finding out I have the kind of Cushing that will just work itself out and I'm healthy was the greatest news imaginable."
Big Little Lies star Shailene Woodley spent a decade seeking treatment for a private condition that caused intense discomfort in her early 20s.
“It got to the point where I was losing my hearing. I couldn’t walk for longer than five minutes at a time without having to lay down for hours, and hours and sleep. Everything I ate hurt my stomach,” Woodley said on a September 2024 SHE MD Podcast episode. “It was this conflation of issues and diagnoses and different doctors telling me different things.”
Woodley studied herbalism and sought multiple medical opinions.
“I come from a very holistic background and study herbalism,” she added. “So I was very keen on, ‘I’m going to work with real MDs, [and] I’m also going to work with independent kind of healers.’ Just trying to search for some sense of comfort in my own skin.”
The illness led to psychological challenges, she noted.
“Throughout that decade, a lot of other things came from feeling so much discomfort physically,” Woodley said, “which was, ‘My gosh, if everything I eat hurts my stomach, I’m now suddenly afraid of food.’ And then going into the kind of mental f-ckery that can happen with that of body dysmorphia and confusion about identity and feeling safe in my own capsule, in my own skin, what that meant, and what that should be.”
Woodley confirmed the issue "physically resolved itself" and she is now "very healthy," adding: "I’m so happy to be able to say that."
Actor Adam Devine revealed in a 2025 In Depth With Graham Bensinger podcast episode that he still suffers from being hit by a cement truck at age 11, noting the pain comes and goes.
“It’s been a nightmare,” Devine said. “I have spasms all over. For a while, [the doctors] told me I was dying, literally, within this last year. My body has all these things that are a little wonky and a little wrong with it."
In-game collapses and recreational injuries
Racing Louisville midfielder Savannah DeMelo suffered a "medical emergency" and collapsed minutes into a September 14 soccer match against the Seattle Reign at Lumen Field in Seattle.
According to Reuters, the United States Women's National Team player slowly sat down on the field with a teammate by her side as the referee called for trainers before she collapsed seconds later.
"Savannah received immediate on-field care from medical personnel and was transported to a local hospital for further evaluation," the National Women's Soccer League wrote on X later that night. "She is stable and alert."
Comedian Tracy Morgan suffered a health scare and was wheeled out of Madison Square Garden during a New York Knicks basketball game in March 2025. The 30 Rock star shared an update on social media the next day confirming it was food poisoning.
Total Bellas alum Nikki Garcia revealed a breast implant shifted when WWE star Piper Niven hit her with an elbow slam during a July 2025 wrestling match.
"It's OK," Garcia told her sister Bella Garcia. "We're going to get it fixed one day. I told the doctor, I go, 'Newly divorced, so the minute the boots are hung up, I'm going to come back to you and we're going to make these girls look real good, because these girls are going to get some action in the future and that can't look like that.'"
Daisy Jones & The Six star Suki Waterhouse was hospitalized in July 2025 with a hernia, a muscular wall gap commonly found in the abdomen or groin area.
"'Suki you never tweet anymore,'" she wrote on X. "Have you ever considered I wore pants so tight 6 months ago it caused a hernia & I’ve been too scared to tell you?"
Bachelor Nation alum Jason Tartick went to the hospital "crawling on all fours" with overwhelming back pain aggravated during an RV trip with a friend.
“Right now, knees to my toes, it’s, like, still tingly, which is crazy,” Tartick said on a March 2025 Trading Secrets podcast episode. “And to put in perspective, I don’t know, man, like not to sound douchey, but like two, three weeks ago, maybe a month ago, I was squatting probably like 295 pounds. And right now, I can’t do a squat on my foot. I can’t do a one legged squat, I fall. It’s like I had a stroke or something.”
With steroids and a back specialist, Tartick confirmed: "We’re on the mend.”
Reality television personality Gina Kirschenheiter shared that her ex-husband Matt Kirschenheiter suffered a heart attack in March 2025, but survived.
Tracey Yukich suffered a medical emergency on the NBC series The Biggest Loser. She collapsed while running a mile during the first challenge.
“I don't remember a lot,” Yukich explained on Fit for TV: The Reality of The Biggest Loser. “I remember hearing the helicopter. I just felt like I was floating. And then my grandpa was there. And then I saw darkness. But then I saw light. So I knew, I knew I died that day.”
She later learned she had rhabdomyolysis.
“My organs were literally shutting down,” she continued. “I didn't realize that I had rhabdomyolysis. And rhabdomyolysis is your body's way of saying, ‘I'm going to shut down on you.’”
