NBC News
The American singer Justin Timberlake, who has just finished his world tour, revealed Thursday that he suffers from Lyme’s disease.
The pop star said he decided to share his diagnosis “to shed some light” about what he has been “facing behind the scenes.”
Its publication comes after receiving online criticism from fans who attended the Electric Castle festival in Romania earlier this month, where videos showed the Grammy winner asking the crowd to sing the songs, something that generated complaints that “it hardly sang.”
“If you have experienced this disease or you know someone who has had it, then you know: to live with this can be relentlessly weakening, both mentally and physically,” he said in an Instagram post.
Timberlake added that his diagnosis caused him shock, and explained why he was experiencing “a huge amount of nervous pain”, fatigue and discomfort during his presentations. He started his tour The Forget Tomorrow World Tour In April 2024 in Vancouver and ended it on Wednesday in Türkiye.
The singer said he considered the possibility of stopping the tour, but finally “I decided that the joy that gives me to act far exceeds the passing stress that my body felt.”
“I am so happy to have moved on,” he continued, saying that the tour has been “the funniest, emotional, rewarding, physically demanding and, sometimes, exhausting experience.”
“I am so happy to have moved on,” the artist expanded. “Not only did I show myself my mental strength, but now I have many special moments with all of you, that I will never forget. I was reluctant to talk about this because they always taught me to maintain things like that in private. But I am trying to be more transparent about my struggles so that they do not mislead.”
After the revelation of their diagnosis, many fans expressed their support in the comments. “We wish your prompt recovery, brother, it is huge of your part to move forward in the midst of all this, for the love of music and your audience,” wrote the singer Miguel.
Lyme’s disease is transmitted through black -legged tick sting, according to disease control and prevention centers (CDC). Symptoms include fever, fatigue, headache and a skin rash. If it is not, it can spread to the heart, the joints and the nervous system.
