Donald Glover recently shared that he suffered a stroke in 2024.
Glover explained his health scares during a performance at Tyler, the Creator’s Camp Flog Gnaw, which was captured on social media.
I had a really bad pain in my head in Louisiana, and I did the show anyway,” Glover said.“And 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.’ ”
“The first thing I thought was like, ‘Oh, here I am still copying Jamie Foxx.’ Glover referred to Fox’s stroke that he suffered in 2023.
“That’s really like the second thing. The first thing was like, ‘I’m letting everybody down,’ ” Glover continued.
Glover als said that he also broke his foot, which led to another surgery. His medical team also discovered he had a hole in his heart.
“They found a hole in my heart. So I had this surgery, and then I had to have another surgery,” Glover continued.. “They say everybody has two lives, and the second life starts when you realize you have one. You should be living your life how you want. If we have to do this again, it can only get better.”
Glover was forced to cancel North American dates of his The New World Tour in September 2024 to focus on his health. The next month, he canceled the remaining dates because of his health.
“After my show in New Orleans, I went to the hospital in Houston to make sure of an ailment that had become apparent. “It became clear I would not perform that night, and after more tests. I could not perform the rest of the US tour in the time asked, Glover wrote in a deleted social media post, “ As of now, I have surgery scheduled and need time out to heal.”
“My path to recovery is something I need to confront seriously,” he continued. “With that said, we have made the difficult decision to cancel the remainder of the North American tour and the UK and European dates.”
Glover’s alter ego Childish Gambino released six albums and won five Grammys. Last July, he revealed that he would be retiring the moniker.
“It really was just like, ‘Oh, it’s done. “It’s not fulfilling,”he told The New York Times. “ And I just felt like I didn’t need to build.”