Lewis Capaldi reveals fresh health battle months after shock Tourettes bombshell
LEWIS Capaldi has revealed he’s battling Vertigo after cancelling European tour dates earlier this month.
The Scots singer, 26, opened up on his latest health battle at Glasgow’s Everyman Cinema as part of a special screening for his upcoming Netflix documentary.
Speaking to the lucky fans who were picked to attend, he said: “I’m alive and living. I’ve not been very well.
“I’ve got vertigo. So I’m spinning but I’m smiling. I’m not dying so it’s good.
“I did think I was for a couple of days but luckily I’m here.”
The show, called Lewis Capaldi: How I’m Feeling Now, is more than seven years in the making.
The musician, from Whitburn, West Lothian, signed a seven-figure deal with Netflix after recording his own journey, from working on hit debut album Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent, to putting together follow-up Broken By Desire to Be Heavenly Sent, due out in May.
Directed by Joe Pearlman, who was behind the infamous 2018 documentary Bros: After The Screaming Stops, the programme comes after Lewis was diagnosed with Tourette’s syndrome last year.
In candid scenes, the megastar is seen trying balance his fame with his desire for normalcy, while also dealing with the pressure to somehow eclipse his wildly successful first album amid increasingly difficult mental health issues.
Lewis warned viewers that the documentary wouldn’t be as positive as they might expect.
But he thanked everyone for accepting him for who he is and backing the project, which launches on the streaming service on April 5.
He added: “When I saw the first cut I thought it looked like a film where I die at the end.
“Luckily things turned around and, as far as I’m aware, I don’t die at the end of this.
“It’s pretty vulnerable. There’s a lot of things in the film that were beginning to be resolved that are now resolved.
“It was a wake up call seeing the first draft. I was approached about it in 2019.
“Things were going well, I hadn’t noticed a twitch affecting my life and my anxiety was under control.
“Someone You Loved had been big and the album had done well and I thought the documentary would be the coolest.
“I had these big shows booked for 2020 and I thought I’d look the business.
“Then Covid and all the rest of it happened and it became quite an intimate thing.”
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