Florence Welch reveals she nearly died from ectopic pregnancy: 'I had a Coke can's worth of blood...

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"The closest I came to making life was the closest I came to death," said the Florence + the Machine frontwoman.

Florence Welch reveals she nearly died from ectopic pregnancy: 'I had a Coke can's worth of blood in my abdomen'

"The closest I came to making life was the closest I came to death," said the Florence + the Machine frontwoman.

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- Florence Welch revealed that she had an ectopic pregnancy in 2023.

- The Florence + the Machine frontwoman said the experience almost killed her.

- The "Shake It Out" singer underwent emergency surgery within an hour of a scan that revealed "a Coke can's worth of blood" in her abdomen.

Florence Welch has opened up about a serious health scare for the first time.

The Florence + the Machine frontwoman revealed that she almost died from an ectopic pregnancy in August 2023 in a new interview with *The Guardian*.

Welch had a miscarriage early into a pregnancy after a fertilized egg implanted itself on her fallopian tube instead of her uterus. After a scan, doctors discovered that her fallopian tube had ruptured.

Florence Welch in 2024.

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"I had a Coke can's worth of blood in my abdomen," the singer told the outlet, revealing that she needed emergency surgery within the hour to remove the fallopian tube. "The closest I came to making life was the closest I came to death."

Welch became pregnant almost immediately after she and her boyfriend started trying to conceive. "It was my first experience of even trying to get pregnant, and I thought, 'There's no way, because I'm ancient,'" she said. "It was a big shock. But it felt magical as well. I felt I had followed a bodily instinct, in that animal sense, and it had happened."

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The "Dog Days Are Over" singer's miscarriage occurred early into her pregnancy, and she wasn't particularly concerned at first. "I think because it was my first time being pregnant, and it was my first miscarriage, I was like, 'Okay, I've heard this is part of it,'" Welch recalled. "I spoke to my doctor, and they are not generally dangerous. Devastating, but not dangerous."

Before she made an appointment for a scan, she performed her headlining set at the Boardmasters Festival in Cornwall, England, despite experiencing considerable pain and bleeding on the day of the show. "I took some ibuprofen and stepped out on stage," she said, noting that her set was plagued by poor weather. "I was in the elements, in the wind and rain, and I just felt something working through me."

Florence Welch performs with Florence + the Machine in Budapest in 2023.

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The "Shake It Out" singer said the pain dissipated during the festival, and she had a sense of peace. "I felt this thing take over, the thing that's always there, the safe space of performance," she recalled. "My sister says it might be because everyone's looking at me. Like, 'Your most peaceful place is where you're the f---ing center of attention?'"

Welch added that she thought if she could make it through the set, she could make it through anything. "I didn't want to go for the scan," she said. "I thought, 'I've done this show, I'm fine, I can cope.' But my doctor's insistence that I come in saved my life."

The musician recalled her guttural reaction to the stress upon returning home from the hospital. "I think the sound that came out of me was like a wounded animal or something," she said. "Ten days later, I was back on stage."

Florence Welch performs with Florence + the Machine in Mijas, Spain, in 2023.

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Indeed, Welch canceled a concert in Zurich and another outside Paris at the end of August 2023, citing an "emergency surgery" at the time without going into further detail. She returned to the stage on Sept. 1 in Lisbon.

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The singer reflected on how the experience has affected her worldview. "I feel slightly more obsessive and fragile and wounded than I did before," she told *The Guardian. *"But it has given me a sense of toughness in my work … working again helped me. It was like little lanterns in a fog. I could just pick my way through. And I was so angry! There was a fury at how unsupported I felt by my industry, how clear it was, that it wasn't built for me."

Welch is set to release Florence + the Machine's next album, *Everybody Scream*, on Oct. 31. "There's a feeling of dying a little bit every time I make a record," she said. "And this time, I nearly died."**

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