Yahoo Lifestyle Parker McCollum Shares Health Update After Abrupt Concert End: ‘Didn’t Have a Choice’
Parker McCollum said he had no choice but to end a recent concert early after falling ill shortly before it was scheduled to begin.
The country music star, who kicked off his What Kinda Man tour last week, was doing a meet-and-greet with fans ahead of his show at Pennsylvania State University’s Bryce Jordan Center on Jan. 25 when he began feeling unwell.
“I had about two people left, and all of a sudden, just out of nowhere, bam,” he said in a health update posted on Instagram Stories on Tuesday, Jan. 28. "I felt in my stomach, I said, ‘Man, I’m about to be very, very sick.’ I knew that something was pretty wrong.”
When the time came for the “Like a Cowboy” singer to hit the stage, he decided to see if his body could rebound enough to make it through the show.
“Got out there, felt OK the first couple of songs,” he recalled. But the further along his concert went, “it became apparent—and I’m sure you all could tell in the crowd—that I was not doing well up there,” he said.
Pulling the plug on a concert mid-performance is not something the 32-year-old is used to doing.
“I’ve never had to walk offstage in the middle of a show,” he informed his Instagram followers. “In all the years I’ve been doing this, that was absolutely the worst thing ever to have to end a show like that, especially so early in the night.”
Once he left the stage, McCollum said he “didn’t even make it to my bus” before he got “as violently sick as I’ve ever been in my entire life.”
The “Pretty Heart” singer apologized to those in the audience and thanked them for understanding. “It’s certainly not how I wanted it to go, but I just didn’t have a choice,” he said.
Now that a few days have passed, McCollum said he is “feeling a little better” and believes he “will be good to go” for the shows he has scheduled later this week and over the weekend in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Maine.
As for the abrupt end to his Jan. 25 show, McCollum said he is “working on a date sometime this year to come back and make that show up.”
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