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Morrissey issues statement on food poisoning
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 15 July 2013
Morrissey has confirmed reports that he was forced to cancel several dates on a South American tour, which was due to begin last week, after contracting food poisoning in Peru.
As previously reported, the promoter of two dates in Peruvian capital Lima told local reporters that the entire tour had been cancelled. Though promoters of dates later in the tour, in Brazil and Argentina, subsequently denied that their shows had been pulled.
Now Morrissey has issued a statement confirming the cancellations in Peru and Chile, but adding that he should indeed be able to play the later tour dates as planned.
In typically dramatic style, the singer wrote: “I can’t give words to the sorrow I feel at the loss of perfect Peru. Oh, black cloud. After such a victorious and uplifting welcome of Lima love, the contaminated jinx had its way via a simple restaurant meal of penne pasta and tomato. Three hours later, both I, and security Liam have collapsed with a deadly and delirious bedridden disease. Five days of round-the-clock medical supervision just barely controls the corrosively toxic food poisoning. I know my luck too well. Sorrow replaces joy, and in every dream home a heartache. It could only be me”.
He continued: “I have returned to Los Angeles and to the expert supervision of my doctor Jeremy Fine, who assures me that I shall be fine (although not in the gossamer, powdery sense) for our upcoming shows in Argentina and Brazil. I have absolutely no idea where my beloved Chile has gone. In the heat of cancellations and postponements, the humiliation and mortification I feel on a personal level is too mammoth to be measured. If my spirits climb down any lower I could never again find the dignity to stand upright. We all live at the mercy of biological chance, and although I am not one to take refuge in clichés, I repeat my very servile apologies to any and all who back-packed their way to Peru. Alas, the dark shadow made the same journey”.
Finally, he concluded: “Each year of life brings us nearer to our decline, but I will continue to seek a listener until I’m dead in a ditch”.
