{"id":23906,"date":"2026-05-11T10:38:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/?p=23906"},"modified":"2026-05-11T10:38:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:38:56","slug":"it-started-as-just-stomach-pain-days-later-bonnie-tyler-was-fighting-for-her-life-the-74-year-old-music-legend-behind-total-eclipse-of-the-heart-has-reportedly-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/?p=23906","title":{"rendered":"IT STARTED AS \u2018JUST STOMACH PAIN\u2019\u2026 DAYS LATER, BONNIE TYLER WAS FIGHTING FOR HER LIFE.\u201d The 74-year-old music legend behind Total Eclipse of the Heart has reportedly been placed in an induced coma after a burst appendix caused a fast-moving infection doctors initially failed to detect. Friends say Bonnie kept performing while quietly suffering through weeks of pain \u2014 until her condition suddenly turned critical in Portugal, leading to emergency surgery and a terrifying battle now unfolding behind hospital doors. As fans pray around the world, heartbreaking new details about her condition are beginning to emerge\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A close friend of Bonnie Tyler has revealed the legendary singer had to have emergency surgery after her appendix burst.<\/p>\n

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Algarve-based businessman Liberto Mealha said the 74-year-old began to feel intense abdominal pain shortly after arriving in Portugal where she has a second home following inconclusive tests in London.<\/p>\n

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Bonnie, godmother to Mr Mealha\u2019s daughter, remained in an induced coma in intensive care at Faro Hospital on Friday.<\/p>\n

Her spokesman has said she has been put in the coma \u2018to aid her recovery\u2019 with leading Portuguese tabloid Correio da Manha reporting today she is suffering a generalised infection which is being treated with high doses of antibiotics after having her appendix removed.<\/p>\n

Opening up on the Welsh songstress\u2019s ongoing health battle, Mr Mealha said: \u2018She started feeling unwell during a concert in London and went to a doctor for tests, but they didn\u2019t detect anything there.<\/p>\n

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A close friend of Bonnie Tyler has revealed the legendary singer had to have emergency surgery after her appendix burst<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018She decided to travel to the Algarve, where she began to feel severe abdominal pain.<\/p>\n

\u2018Two days later, she went to a private hospital, which urgently transferred her to the hospital in Faro because her appendix had burst and she needed emergency surgery.\u2019<\/p>\n

The entrepreneur, who first met The Total Eclipse of the Heart singer when he opened a well-known Albufeira nightclub in the eighties, told Correio da Manha Bonnie\u2019s doting husband Robert Sullivan is spending his days by her hospital bedside and only leaving to sleep at home at nighttime.<\/p>\n

He added: \u2018He\u2019s very grateful to the doctors and nurses at the Faro hospital and believes that if Bonnie had stayed in the United Kingdom she would no longer be here.\u2019<\/p>\n

News of the singer\u2019s health woes first emerged on Wednesday following reports she had undergone emergency bowel surgery.<\/p>\n

A spokesman reacted by saying: \u2018We are very sorry to announce that Bonnie\u00a0has been admitted to hospital in Faro, Portugal, where she has a home, for emergency intestinal surgery.<\/p>\n

\u2018The surgery went well and she is now recuperating. We 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.\u2019<\/p>\n

Following new reports yesterday her health had worsened, she was breathing with the aid of a ventilator after being put in an induced coma, and doctors were not sure how her condition would evolve, the spokesman said: \u2018Bonnie has been put into an induced coma by\u00a0her doctors to aid her recovery.<\/p>\n

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Algarve-based businessman Liberto Mealha said the 74-year-old began to feel intense abdominal pain shortly after arriving in Portugal where she has a second home following inconclusive tests in London<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018We know that you all wish her well and ask for privacy at this difficult time please.<\/p>\n

\u2018We will issue a further statement when we are able to.\u2019<\/p>\n

Bonnie, who has had multiple Top Ten hits in her long career and competed at the Eurovision Song Contest representing the UK in 2013, is believed to have been rushed to hospital on April 30.<\/p>\n

She was said to have been \u2018stable\u2019 in an intermediate care unit at Faro Hospital before an apparent worsening of her health led to her being transferred to intensive care.<\/p>\n

Sources\u00a0said overnight she had been maintaining her professional activity in the run-up to her hospitalisation despite complaining of persistent pain for several weeks.<\/p>\n

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Wellwisher Sara Hadfield wrote on social media overnight: \u2018My husband spent 10 days eight years ago in an induced coma in ICU in Faro Hospital.<\/p>\n

\u2018They cared for him very well. I hope they do the same for Bonnie.\u2019<\/p>\n

Jenny Edwards added: \u2018Come on Bonnie girl. Us Welshies don\u2019t give up. Here is to a full recovery.\u2019<\/p>\n

And Portuguese national Maria Joao Raposo Fonseca said: \u2018Speedy recovery for Bonnie.<\/p>\n

\u2018She is such a lovely lady. I lived\u00a0close to her in Albufeira and used to see her all the time at my hairdresser\u2019s salon doing her tanning and then driving her little red convertible.\u2019<\/p>\n

A ruptured appendix is a severe medical emergency requiring immediate surgical intervention and antibiotics to prevent fatal infections.<\/p>\n

When an infected appendix ruptures, it creates a hole and causes fecal matter and bacteria to leak into the abdominal cavity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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