Bruce Springsteen struggled with different health issues over the past years.
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street band constantly mentioned postponing the concerts because of the singer's health issue, but it never disclosed the exact problem until recently.
Bruce Springsteen's Health Issues: From Mental Health Issues to Peptic Ulcer
In 2012, David Remnick published his profile in The New Yorker, in which he quoted Steve Van Zandt's statement about the musician looking as thin as he was when they were 15. Springsteen also never did drugs his entire life, though he became depressed at one point in his life.
He started addressing his mental health issues in his 30s after years of thinking nothing was wrong with him. Because of his poor health, he followed a vegetarian diet, ran on a treadmill and lifted weights.
Springsteen dropped more details about his depression and other health issues in his 2016 memoir, "Born To Run."
He revealed that his father, Dough Springsteen, also struggled with severe mental illness that worsened as the years went by until his death.
The "Dancing in the Dark" singer went through the same after his marriage to model-actress Julianne Phillips in the mid-1980s. He revealed in his book that their failed relationship caused him mental anguish, and it became one of his earliest struggles before going through a major depression when he entered his sixties.
Prior to his recent concert cancelation, Springsteen said he had been receiving treatment for his depression over the past years.
"I couldn't get out of bed," he wrote. "Hell, I couldn't even get a hard-on. It was like all my notorious energy, something that had been mine to command for most of my life, had been cruelly stolen away. I was a walking husk."
Springsteen underwent a major surgery after his "Wrecking Ball" tour. He reportedly started noting his left hand getting weak and harder to control in 2009 while he was in the middle of his "Working on a Dream" tour.
He soon found out that the problem was caused by his cervical disc problems on the left side of his neck; thus, it started numbing the nerves on the left side of his body.
After the surgery, he lost his voice for months but eventually regained it.
In April 2023, Springsteen and wife Patti Scialfa tested positive for COVID-19, though it did not affect any of his shows. He suffered a fall during his concert in Amsterdam in June 2023, but the singer - unharmed - continued the show.
More health issues surfaced starting in August of this year, with Springsteen's illness leading to the cancelation of the band's tour dates in Philadelphia.
Only this month, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street band released a statement confirming that the singer is undergoing treatment for his peptic ulcer disease.
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