Adele left partially deaf from painful rare infection: ‘Worse than childbirth’
nypost.comper The Sun.“It is the most painful thing that ever, ever happened to me in my life. It was worse than childbirth.”The 16-time Grammy winner said she picked up a “rare water bacteria” during her ten-date residency in Munich, Germany this summer.“[It] is hard to treat, so I was on the wrong antibiotics for a few days,” she recalled, adding that the pain was so bad that she wanted to “chop my ear off.”“They managed to give me one that started to work.
I’m no longer in pain, which is great, [but] I’m a bit deaf in my left ear,” she added.Still, the “Set Fire to the Rain” hitmaker said “there was no way” she would “miss this f–king show” — no matter how bad the pain was.The Post has reached out to Adele’s reps for comment.It’s not the first time the mom of one suffered from a painful infection.In 2013, Adele revealed that after having to perform under the hot lights at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, she was left with a fungal skin infection.“It is a bit crude but I never knew it existed,” she said at the time. “Obviously when I do my shows I wear Spanx and keep it all in and make it all fit me.”“And I sweat a lot and it doesn’t go anywhere.
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