Donald Glover aka Childish Gambino finally details multiple health scares

Donald Glover is finally opening up about the hospitalisation that forced him to cancel his tour last year.

Over the weekend, the five-time Grammy winner — who also goes by Childish Gambino — performed at Tyler the Creator’s Camp Flog Gnaw music festival at the Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. There, he took a moment to open up about the multiple health scares that forced him to not only cancel the remaining shows of The New World Tour, but also reevaluate his life.

Speaking to the audience, the This is America hitmaker revealed that he experienced a “really bad” headache but still went ahead with his show that day in Louisiana.

“I couldn’t really see well, so when we went to Houston I went to the hospital and the doctor was like, ‘You had a stroke,’” he recalled, adding that he felt like he’s “letting everybody down” by cancelling his tour.

However, that was far from the only ailment Glover experienced last year.

“I broke my foot… They found a hole in my heart… so I had this surgery, and then I had to have another surgery. They say everybody has two lives and the second life starts when you realise you have one… You should be living your life how you want. If we have to do this again, it can only get better,” he said.

The detailed health update comes over a year after Glover was forced to cancel The New World Tour — his final tour under the Childish Gambino moniker.

At the time, he did not disclose the exact details of his health scare. Instead, he only shared that he went to the hospital in Houston to check up on an “ailment,” writing in a since-deleted X post that he had a “surgery scheduled and [needed] time out to heal.”