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An eighth show has been cancelled on Janet Jackson’s
would-be comeback tour, Rock Witchu, as her doctors advise her to continue her
rest after mysteriously falling ill in late September right before a Montreal
concert.
Fans of Janet Jackson are getting more and more jittery as they
are told to hang on to tickets they have bought for one of her concerts and
wait for the rescheduled event. The R&B diva has cancelled yet another
show, as doctors advised her to focus on her health at the moment.
Janet Jackson was performing a sound check in Montreal on Sept. 29,
preparing for the show which was to unfold that night, when she suddenly felt
ill and sought medical attention at a local hospital.
That night’s concert was cancelled. She was released within
hours from Montreal’s Royal Victoria Hospital but no explanations were offered
concerning her health issues, other than she hoped to reschedule the gig.
Jackson
cancelled another six shows over the following weeks, due to the same mystery
illness.
She made an effort to perform in Greensboro, N. C. on Saturday, Oct. 4, as
planned but a local doctor who checked her prior to the show said it was
“evident” she was not ready to undertake such a task. Shows in Greensboro,
Atlanta and Fort Lauderdale
were subsequently cancelled, after Boston and Philadelphia earlier in
October.
The latest no-show is in Verona, N.Y.,
as announced on the Turning Stone Resort and Casino’s website. She will not
appear at Madison
Square Garden
later this week either.
This is, or would have been, Janet Jackson’s first North
American tour in seven years, following 2001’s All For You Tour. The Rock
Witchu Tour kicked off on Sept. 10 in Vancouver,
Canada, to
enthusiastic reviews.
Before falling ill, the singer cancelled one show in Detroit in late September
due to “production constraints.”
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