Don’t tell musicians what to do. Only hours after Halsey spent the night in the ER, she took the stage for her second night at Boston’s MGM Music Hall. During the performance, as Halsey was addressing the crowd, a male audience member shouted, “Stop talking and play.”
“You think you’re tough shit because you’re from Boston?” the singer replied. “I’m from Jersey, baby. I’ll whoop your ass. My dad’s from Boston, my mom’s from Jersey—that basically makes me a fucking demon. I’m gonna play whatever the fuck I wanna play. In case you didn’t hear me correctly, I almost fucking died to be on this stage. I’m going to play whatever the fuck I wanna play.”
“I’ve been polite but won’t be caught dead letting a man tell me what I should play in my set,” Halsey later wrote on X. She added, “There’s always one.”
Yesterday, Halsey updated fans on her health, explaining that she spent Sunday night in the emergency room after her first show in Boston. On Instagram Stories, the singer-songwriter said she had a “minor medical emergency” after her first of two concerts. Although she was in the hospital’s ER until six in the morning, Halsey told fans, “I am A-Okay now and ready to rock tonight!”
Halsey did not specify what put her in the emergency room, though she’s been undergoing chemotherapy treatments recently after being diagnosed with lupus and a rare T-Cell lymphoproliferative disorder in 2022. On Instagram, Halsey thanked the doctors, nurses, and hospital staff who treated her at Mass General, calling them “the absolute best team I’ve ever met,” and adding, “I am so so grateful!”
The musician is currently celebrating the 10th anniversary of her debut album on her Back to Badlands tour, which kicked off last month. She has additional shows across the U.S. scheduled through mid-November, with a second North American leg kicking off next January. Shows in Europe, the U.K., and Australia will follow.
