Singer Halsey says she’s ‘lucky to be alive’ as she reveals health battle | Ents & Arts News

Pop singer Halsey has stated she is “fortunate to be alive” as she revealed she has been privately battling continual diseases.

The 29-year-old American shared the private information in a social media put up – concurrently asserting a brand new album.

Halsey, whose actual identify is Ashley Nicolette Frangipane, didn’t disclose the prognosis, however tagged the Lupus Analysis Alliance and the Leukemia & Lymphona Society within the put up.

In a video posted to Instagram, she described herself as “like an outdated woman”.

“I advised myself I am giving myself two extra years to be sick,” she stated.

“And 30… I am having a rebirth and I am not going to be sick and I will look tremendous sizzling and have plenty of vitality and I am simply going to get to redo my twenties in my thirties.”

Alongside the footage, she wrote a caption: “Lengthy story brief, I am fortunate to be alive. Quick story lengthy, I wrote an album.”

Within the video, she rubbed her legs as she spoke, with what seemed to be remedy on a espresso desk in entrance of her.

She additionally shared photographs and pictures within the put up of herself receiving therapy for her diseases, at instances in tears.

The put up additionally included snippets of her recording her fifth studio album.

Lupus is a long-term situation that causes joint and muscle ache, pores and skin rashes and excessive tiredness. There isn’t any treatment however signs can enhance if therapy begins early, in keeping with the NHS web site.

Leukemia and lymphoma are sorts of most cancers that may have an effect on blood cells and the immune system.

Halsey has spoken beforehand on social media about her well being, saying in an Instagram put up in April 2022: “The final time I attended the Grammys was 2017 and it was 3 days after I had my first Endometriosis surgical procedure. I walked the carpet with my stitches nonetheless in.

“As luck would have it, I am attending tomorrow for the primary time in years and I had surgical procedure once more (you guessed it) 3 days in the past. Solely posting this to say, for those who see me be mild lol I am fragile. Fragile however excited.”

The singer-songwriter is understood for tracks together with Nearer with The Chainsmokers and With out Me. She launched her debut album Badlands in 2015 which went platinum within the US.

In July 2022, Halsey joined Justin Timberlake and Pharrell Williams to function in Calvin Harris’s summer time single Keep With Me.