Lewis Capaldi.Photo: Andrew Benge/Redferns
Capaldi was performing the bridge of his chart-topping single “Someone You Loved” on Tuesday when he suddenly stopped, seemingly as aresult of his Tourette syndrome.
The “Forget Me” singer revealed in an Instagram Live in September that he’d always had Tourette’s, but had only been recently diagnosed, and said it often manifests itself in a shoulder twitch.
“The worst thing about it is when I’m excited I get it, when I’m stressed I get it, when I’m happy I get it. It happens all the time,” he said of his involuntary twitches. “Some days it’s more painful than others and some days it’s less painful. It looks a lot worse than it is. Sometimes it’s quite uncomfortable … but it comes and goes.”
Tourette’s is a disorder “that involves repetitive movements or unwanted sounds (tics) that can’t be easily controlled,” according to theMayo Clinic. Fellow pop starBillie Eilishhas also been public aboutliving with the disorder, and said she was diagnosed at age 11.
Capaldi said in September that he initially feared he had “some horrible degenerative disease,” but that his diagnosis “makes so much sense,” as he noticed himself twitching in old interviews from 2018.
“I do the shoulder twitch quite a lot. And you see underneath every TikTok and stuff, people are like, ‘Why is he twitching?’, which is fine. Curiosity is fine. I get it,” he said, noting that he spoke out about the disorder because he didn’t want people to think he was “taking cocaine.”
“It’s a new thing, I haven’t really learned much about it — I’m learning,” he added. “I’ve got Botox on my shoulder to stop it moving. It worked for a bit.”
The Grammy-nominated musician put out his debut album in 2019, and has released a string of singles in recent months in anticipation of his upcoming sophomore effortBroken By Desire to Be Heavenly Sent, which is set for release in May.
source: people.com
