Donald Glover is opening up about a recent health scare that forced him to cancel his tour last year<\/a>. At the time, he described it as an \u201cailment,\u201d but Glover said Saturday night at a performance that a doctor told him he\u2019d had a stroke.<\/p>\n Glover, who performs under the moniker Childish Gambino<\/a>, shared the information on stage at Tyler, the Creator\u2019s<\/a> Camp Flog Gnaw festival in Los Angeles. His remarks were shared widely on social media.<\/p>\n \u201cYou guys voted for a \u2018where have I been monologue,\u2019\u201d Glover, 42, said. \u201cI had a really bad pain in my head in Louisiana and I did the show anyway. I couldn\u2019t really see well, so when we went to Houston, I went to the hospital and the doctor was like, \u2018You had a stroke.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Glover said he felt like he was letting everyone down, lamenting that he still hasn\u2019t been to Ireland. He also revealed that \u201cthey found a hole\u201d in his heart and he had to have two surgeries.<\/p>\n \u201cThey say everybody has two lives and the second life starts when you realize you have one,\u201d Glover said. \u201cYou got one life, guys, and I gotta be honest, the life I\u2019ve lived with you guys has been such a blessing.\u201d<\/p>\n His representatives did not immediately respond to request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.voiceofalexandria.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Donald Glover is opening up about a recent health scare that forced him to cancel his tour last year. At the time, he described it as an \u201cailment,\u201d but Glover said Saturday night at a performance that a doctor told him he\u2019d had a stroke. Glover, who performs under the moniker Childish Gambino, shared the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2174540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[418321,21741,345682,22271,418322,356468,22171],"class_list":["post-2174539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-donald-glover-stroke","tag-entertainment","tag-fairs-and-festivals","tag-health","tag-pain-management","tag-stroke","tag-surgery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Donald-Glover-says-he-had-a-stroke-Celebrity-News.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2174539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2174541,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174539\/revisions\/2174541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2174540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2174539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2174539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2174539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}