Morrissey has admitted he has been ‘cautioned’ to retire from music in the wake of the serious health problems which he has been battling for the past few months.
A stop-start North American tour was finally put out of its misery last week after a series of delays which began when Morrissey returned home to England last year to be with his mother, who had fallen ill.
Upon his return to the States, the singer himself was then hit with Barrett’s esophagus and a bleeding ulcer forcing a number of shows to be cancelled. His second comeback ended permanently not long after following a diagnosis of double pneumonia.
“I have been cautioned to, but it’s difficult for me because it’s very ingrained in me,” Morrissey has told Mexican radio station Reactor 105.7 of the possibility of him retiring from music.
“I had a very bad time. I had internal bleeding and I was rushed into hospital and I had lost a lot of blood. They tried to patch me together over the following five weeks but it didn’t work. I was on lots of IV drips for almost five weeks, and each time it seemed as though I was back to robust health I would decline. I had lost so much blood I had become anaemic, but I’m still receiving ongoing treatment and I am very optimistic now.”
“It almost became absurd the number of things that happened to me, but everything just attacked me at once,” he continued. “The double pneumonia – everything was really a result of the fact I had lost so much blood, so the immune defenses were very, very low and couldn’t cope with anything, so therefore the slightest gust of wind and I would have a terrible cold.”