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Florence Welch has shared how she lost a fallopian tube after an ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage. ”My doctor's insistence that I come in saved my life," the Florence + the Machine frontwoman revealed. "The closest I came to making life was the closest I came to death.” In a new The Guardian profile published over the weekend, Welch talks about a miscarriage she had two summers ago. She had become pregnant almost immediately after she and her boyfriend decided to try for a baby, but it ended up being an ectopic pregnancy that resulted in one of her fallopian tubes rupturing. ”I felt like I had stepped through this door, and it was just full of women, screaming," she told the publication. Welch ended up miscarrying shortly before she was scheduled to perform at a festival in Cornwall. "I took some ibuprofen and stepped out on stage," she said. ”I didn't want to go for the scan," she recalled. "I thought, 'I've done this show, I'm fine, I can cope.' But my doctor's insistence that I come in saved my life.” During the appointment, Welch learned of the rupture and was rushed into emergency surgery. ”I had a Coke can's worth of blood in my abdomen," she reflects, sharing that doctors could not save her fallopian tube. Welch’s experience informed her upcoming album, Everybody Scream, which is set to drop this Halloween.
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