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Lewis Capaldi struggled to complete his Glastonbury set on Saturday evening, with vocal problems leaving him almost unable to sing his final songs.
The show was supposed to be a comeback, after Capaldi cancelled three weeks of shows to “rest and recover” amid concerns for his health.
But despite a warm reception from the crowd, his voice quickly faltered and he left the stage looking dejected.
“Glastonbury, I’m really sorry,” he said. “I’m a bit annoyed with myself.”
By the end of the set, he suggested he would need to take more time away from public life to recuperate.
“I feel like I’ll be taking another wee break over the next couple of weeks. So you probably won’t see much of me for the rest of the year, maybe even.
“But when I do come back and when I do see you, I hope you’re still up for watching us.”
As his band played Someone You Love, the singer largely stayed silent, with the crowd carrying him along on an affectionate wave of support,
“I genuinely dreamt of doing this,” he said as he walked off. “If I never get to do it again, this has been enough.”
The singer has been remarkably brave in discussing his struggles with anxiety and the pressures of fame.
Last year, he announced that he’d been given a diagnosis of Tourette’s syndrome, and he recently appeared in a candid Netflix film documenting his mental health issues.
“When I have a panic attack, it feels like I’m going insane, completely disconnected from reality,” he told the director, Joe Pearlman. “I can’t breathe. I can’t feel my breath going in. I get dizzy. I feel like there’s something…
