Overview

• Welch recounts that her fallopian tube ruptured during an ectopic pregnancy, leading to significant internal bleeding and the removal of the tube.
• She says a scan revealed “a Coke can’s worth of blood” in her abdomen and credits her doctor’s insistence on immediate testing with saving her life.
• Despite severe pain and bleeding, she performed a headline set at Boardmasters in Cornwall before learning of the rupture in London.
• Florence + The Machine canceled August 2023 dates in Zurich and Paris for what was then described as emergency surgery, with Welch returning to the stage roughly ten days later.
• Welch says she and her partner conceived on their first attempt at 37, the pregnancy ended in an early miscarriage that was ectopic, and the experience left lasting emotional effects she is now discussing publicly.