Justin Bieber has had to postpone three of his Bieber’s Justice World Tour shows which began in February due to facial paralysis, a Ramsay Hunt syndrome, which shingles outbreak affects the facial nerve near someone’s ears.
The 28-year-old Canadian-born singer said in a three-minute Instagram video “As you can see this eye is not blinking. I can’t smile on this side of my face … So there’s full paralysis on this side of my face. It is from this virus that attacks the nerve in my ear and my facial nerves and has caused my face to have paralysis”. He asked for his fans to be patient, and said of his forthcoming shows that he is “physically, obviously, not capable of doing them. This is pretty serious, as you can see. I wish this wasn’t the case, but, obviously, my body‘s telling me I’ve got to slow down. I hope you guys understand. I’ll be using this time to just rest and relax and get back to a hundred per cent so that I can do what I was born to do”. He also smiled and blinked, showing his 240 million followers how the right side of his face did not move.
He had been due to play in Washington DC and Toronto earlier this week, with concerts also planned in New York and Los Angeles in the coming weeks.
In March the singer’s wife Hailey Bieber was admitted to hospital due to a blood clot in her brain. She later said she had suffered a stroke and had undergone surgery to close a hole in her heart.
