Florence Welch reveals ectopic pregnancy ruptured onstage in 2023

Florence Welch has revealed that the lifesaving emergency surgery she underwent in 2023 was the result of an ectopic pregnancy that ruptured while she was onstage, causing massive internal bleeding and the removal of a fallopian tube. The singer disclosed the details in a recent interview with The Guardian, saying the incident occurred in the summer of 2023 when she was due to headline a festival in Cornwall and had only recently discovered she was pregnant.

Welch said she and her boyfriend, an unnamed British guitarist, had decided two years earlier to try for a child and were surprised to conceive on their first attempt. The pregnancy ended early in a miscarriage that Welch initially thought was not life threatening. She told The Guardian that she had been advised by her doctor that most miscarriages are devastating but not dangerous and that she went ahead with the Cornwall headline performance after taking ibuprofen. "I took some ibuprofen and stepped out on stage," she said. "Emotionally, I was sad and scared, but I think, also, I was coping."

After the show, on the tour bus and back home in London, Welch’s pain intensified and her doctor insisted she attend a scan. During...