{"id":2106268,"date":"2025-10-21T18:12:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2106268"},"modified":"2025-10-21T18:12:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:12:50","slug":"mark-chesnutt-recovering-after-latest-health-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/mark-chesnutt-recovering-after-latest-health-scare\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Chesnutt Recovering After Latest Health Scare"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mark Chesnutt was rushed to the hospital late last week right before he was set to open a show for country group Alabama on October 16th in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is currently recovering at home in Beaumont, Texas and is expected to be okay. But it\u2019s the latest health scare in a rash of them for the country legend, and his remaining shows this week have been postponed. <\/p>

\u201cMark was admitted to Baton Rouge General Hospital Thursday morning after his flight arrived for the concert with Alabama,\u201d <\/em>Chesnutt\u2019s publicist Don Murray Grubbs tells Saving Country Music. \u201cDoctors determined he had a low sodium count and very high blood pressure. His show Saturday in New Mexico was canceled. Mark wants to apologize the fans who came to see him in Baton Rouge and also to those who had planned to see him in Portales, New Mexico. He hopes to be back to perform in both cities soon. Additionally, shows this week have been canceled, which Mark also regrets.<\/em>\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publicist Don Murray Grubbs continues, \u201cMark was released from the hospital on Saturday. He\u2019s home in Beaumont, Texas and visiting with his doctors this week to get the low sodium and high blood pressure under control<\/em>.\u201d <\/p>

In late November of 2023, Chesnutt was forced to cancel multiple shows, and was in the hospital getting tests for undisclosed reasons, leading to much speculation about his health, and a prolonged pause from touring. Then in May of this year, Chesnutt came clean about his health struggles<\/a><\/strong>, and his battles with alcohol. <\/p>

It all started when the Beaumont, TX native was in his early 20s and he fractured his spine.\u00a0\u201cIn them days, they didn\u2019t know how to fix it, and I couldn\u2019t fix it, so I just lived with it,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Chesnutt says. But in 2021, his back problems caught up to him, forcing him off the road to have necessary surgery. At first the surgery seemed to have worked somewhat, but then complications set in. Mark began losing the ability to walk, and fell down and escalator at the airport in Houston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This forced Chesnutt to have another surgery that involved doctors installing two titanium rods in his back. Then the necessary rehabilitation after the procedure was put on hold due to the pandemic.\u00a0\u201cMy surgery was a major major one. I couldn\u2019t work. I was laid up, didn\u2019t drive, couldn\u2019t walk, couldn\u2019t do anything.\u201d<\/em><\/p>

This is when Chesnutt\u2019s drinking problems started to cope with the pain. Chesnutt tried to return to touring to put some purpose back into his life, but his back wasn\u2019t healed yet, and his alcoholism was raging. Chesnutt was afraid of going to rehab, because he didn\u2019t want the public who was already curious from canceled tour dates to find out about his drinking problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But when it got so bad there was no other choice, his wife called an ambulance. Chesnutt needed four blood transfusions just to keep him alive. He was bleeding internally. Doctors said he only would have lived a couple more days without seeking treatment.\u00a0\u201cI had to quit drinking or die,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Chesnutt says. So on November 1st, 2023, he took his last drink.<\/p>

\u201cI\u2019m back and doing better than ever,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Chesnutt\u00a0said in May.\u00a0\u201cMy diet is better. I\u2019m more active, and I feel better than I did in my 30s. I\u2019m excited about the whole process of going on the road. I\u2019m excited every night to go on stage. I have the energy I wish I had throughout the \u201990s.\u201d<\/em><\/p>

Nonetheless, Mark Chesnutt just turned 62 years old in September, and is no spring chicken, including with his list of previously diagnosed ailments. But the good news is he is currently expected to make a full recovery, and is currently scheduled to resume touring on November 7th at the Harvester Performance Center in Rocky Mount, Virginia. <\/p>

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