Florence Welch is opening up about a scary time in her life where she almost died.
The 39-year-old singer recently revealed that she had an ectopic pregnancy in 2023, which nearly cost her her life.
An ectopic pregnancy is when “a fertilized egg implants and grows outside the main cavity of the uterus,” per the Mayo Clinic.
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While speaking to The Guardian, Florence shared how she had a miscarriage in August 2023, and days later learned the pregnancy was ectopic, with her fallopian tube becoming ruptured. This caused massive internal bleeding for the singer.
“I think, because it was my first time being pregnant, and it was my first miscarriage, I was like, OK, I’ve heard this is part of it. I spoke to my doctor, and they are not generally dangerous. Devastating, but not dangerous,” she said. “Emotionally, I was sad and scared, but I think, also, I was coping.”
Florence had a performance a week later. Her doctor suggested she get checked out, so she made a plan to get a scan. “Emotionally, I was sad and scared, but I think, also, I was coping.”
The day of the concert, she had pain, but took ibuprofen and carried on with the performance, but on the bus back to London, the pain returned and the next morning, she felt fine.
She noted how she didn’t want to go the scan, but “my doctor’s insistence that I come in saved my life.”
“I had a Coke can’s worth of blood in my abdomen,” she said of the scan. She was then told she needed emergency surgery, and the fallopian tube was unable to saved, causing it to be removed.
“The closest I came to making life was the closest I came to death,” she said. “And I felt like I had stepped through this door, and it was just full of women, screaming.”
Back in August, Florence announced her new Florence + The Machine album, which was shaped by her experience recovering from lifesaving surgery during her Dance Fever tour.
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