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Country music singer Mark Chesnutt has been forced to cancel another show as he recovers from a medical emergency suffered before a show in Louisianna last week.<\/p>\n
Parade Magazine reported that Chesnutt called off his Wednesday show at the Blue Gate Performing Arts Center in Shipshewana, Indiana. The singer also cancelled his show last Saturday after the incident that took place in Louisiana on Thursday.<\/p>\n
His publicist, Don Murry Grubbs, told Countrynow.com<\/b><\/a> that doctors discovered that Chesnutt had a \u201clow sodium count\u201d and \u201cvery high blood pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMark wants to apologize to the fans who came to see him in Baton Rouge and also to those who had planned to see him yesterday in Portales, New Mexico,\u201d the statement read. \u201cHe hope to be back to perform in both cities soon.\u201d<\/p>\n Chesnutt, 62, reportedly fell ill on Thursday before opening for the legendary group, Alabama, at the Raising Cane\u2019s River Center in Louisiana.<\/p>\n He was admitted to the hospital there.<\/p>\n The singer was slated to perform on Saturday at the One Portales Wine, Beer and Music Festival in New Mexico, but he cancelled that appearance.<\/p>\n \u201cDue to unforeseen circumstances, Mark Chesnutt will no longer be able to perform at the One Portales Wine, Beer and Music Festival,\u201d Eastern New Mexico University announced. \u201cWe unfortunately will have to cancel the event. Refunds will be emailed to all ticket buyers in the upcoming days.\u201d<\/p>\n Chesnutt has had a series of health issues across the past several years, including a scary heart problem last year that resulted in him receiving a quadruple bypass.<\/p>\n And, in an interview with American Songwriter earlier this year, country he revealed that his heart issues last year were not the first time he nearly lost his life.<\/p>\n In fact, Chesnutt laid out a series of health issues that became progressively worse across the past couple of years. He had a fractured spine that he lived with for years that finally needed to be fixed.<\/p>\n And, while he was recovering from that back during the pandemic, he picked up a drinking habit that took control and nearly took his life, too. He was off the road because of the virus and laid up after having back surgery.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was getting worse and worse, and my surgery was a major major one,\u201d he said. \u201cI couldn\u2019t work. I was laid up, didn\u2019t drive, couldn\u2019t walk, couldn\u2019t do anything.\u201d<\/p>\n Chesnutt said he \u201cdrank all day, every day.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019d get up in the middle of the night and drink,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019d never stop.\u201d<\/p>\n Chesnutt said he grew up in a time when \u201cit was normal for everybody to drink all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI just took it to the extreme,\u201d he said, \u201cand it about killed me.\u201d<\/p>\n That is when he said he had his wife call for an ambulance.<\/p>\n \u201cI knew I was dying,\u201d he said.American Songwriter reported <\/b><\/a>that doctors gave the singer four blood transfusions and told him his heart was \u201con the edge of cardiac arrest.\u201d Chesnutt said they told his wife if she had not called when she did, he likely would not have survived another two days. The singer told the site he was in a Knoxville hospital for a week where he learned that all of his organs, and especially his heart, were on the verge of shutting down.<\/p>\n \u201cI was bleeding out from the inside,\u201d Chesnutt said. \u201cThey basically told me they were gonna get me over this, and I was going to be fine, and they could fix everything wrong with me. But if they discharged me and I went home and I started drinking again, I\u2019d be back in a matter of days, and I might not leave alive.<\/p>\n \u201cI had to quit drinking or die.\u201d<\/p>\n If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. 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