Overview
- After a comeback performance at The Bowl at Sugar Hill on Friday, August 21, doctors and on-site medics determined Michaels still needed extended rest and recovery.
- His team announced on August 22 that he will be pulled off the road for the next several months and that all remaining 2026 shows, including the Mountain Music Festival, have been canceled.
- Michaels underwent emergency surgery in July for a complicated obstructing kidney stone and received a ureteral stent that physicians say increases the risk of urinary infection while the device remains in place.
- Treating doctors cited his lifelong Type 1 diabetes and the summer heat and humidity as factors that can destabilize blood sugar and compromise healing, saying those conditions make a touring schedule unsafe.
- Management apologized to fans, said the break is temporary, and expressed optimism about a healthy return in 2027 while his medical team monitors hydration, wound healing, and glucose control.