Singaporean singer Stefanie Sun, who turned 46 on July 23, recently disclosed that she had been sick for a month.
In an eight-minute video uploaded on social media late on July 23, she said she started experiencing symptoms after taking part in a music festival in China’s Fuzhou city on June 16.
“I remember sweating all over when I performed the second song and I felt a sense of crisis on stage, as I don’t usually sweat,” she recalled.
Sun said she shivered uncontrollably for two hours after returning to the hotel, which worried both her and her staff.
She flew back to Singapore the next day, and realised she was suffering from a bad bout of flu. She consulted both Western doctors and traditional Chinese medicine physicians, and even went to a local hospital’s emergency department.
Sun has since recovered after treatment.
The Mandopop star, who will be embarking on a concert tour in 2025 and releasing a new song in late 2024, said in the video that she had to suspend concert rehearsals due to her illness.
She added: “I was in the doldrums, as if all my previous efforts had gone to waste.”
At the same time, she said she will also be busy with her son’s exams until October. He will turn 12 that month and her daughter turns six in July.
Sun said she has been spending less time on social media recently. Her last social media post was on June 17, a day after the Fuzhou music festival.
She advised her fans to read more books and spend less time on their mobile phones, and that she has been reading books on psychology of late, like The Body Keeps The Score (2014) by Dutch psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk.
The book describes the author’s research and experiences on how people are affected by traumatic stress, including its effects on the mind and body. – The Straits Times/Asia News Network
