14 DAY TRIAL // Health concerns for George Michael, as reports of the singer being rushed to the hospital last week are beginning to emerge. The news comes after Michael's spokesperson confirmed the musician had been at their facility to undergo some tests, but refused to give out any further details.
The Sun spoke with the man in question who said that “George Michael was in hospital for routine tests but there is nothing further to say.” Sources close to the singer revealed that he fell ill last week and that two emergency ambulances were sent to the star's north London home on Thursday to take him to the hospital.
The call to the emergency services came from a “worried friend” after the singer suffered a “mystery collapse.”
The local ambulance services confirmed the intervention, “We were called just before 8am on May 22. We sent two ambulance crews and staff treated one patient, a man, who was then taken to hospital.” Meanwhile, eyewitnesses confirmed that ambulances left after four hours of responding to the call, with the singer onboad.
This isn't the first time George goes through health scares. In recent years, he's suffered from a series of such incidents. In 2011, he was hospitalized in Vienna, Austria, with a severe pneumonia and spent weeks in intensive care. He later spoke about the incident and claimed that it had been “touch and go” whether he would live through his convalescence.
He also mentioned that doctors had to perform a tracheotomy to keep his airways open to allow his to breathe and that he drifted in and out of consciousness while he sat in the hospital. Finally, he did recover and was able to take the stage again.
Last year, the actor was involved in a car crash on the British M1 highway, that was described as weird. It seems the singer somehow fell out of his car.
Some of the singer's health problems may have been connected to drug use. In 2010 he crashed his car into a shop in North London, after taking cannabis. He was arrested and given a five-year ban from driving after he pleaded guilty to driving under the influence.
But that wasn't the first time. Similar incidents involving cars and drugs happened in 2006 and 2004 on multiple occasions, after he was found slumped at the wheel of his car or under the influence of drugs.
An official comment to explain the singer's mysterious collapse or the fact that he was taken to the hospital has yet to be made.