Florence Welch has revealed that she recently received emergency life-saving surgery.

The Florence + The Machine frontwoman says she doesn’t “really feel strong enough” to go into the details of the surgery. Due to the procedure, the band was forced to cancel shows in Portugal and Spain.

“Suffice to say I wish the songs were less accurate in their predictions,” Welch wrote in a letter to fans on Instagram. “But creativity is a way of coping, mythology is a way of making sense. And the dark fairytale of [the band’s latest album] Dance Fever, with all its strange prophecies, will provide me with much-needed strength and catharsis right now.”

 

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