Rock legend Meat Loaf was “severely unwell” with COVID-19 simply days earlier than his dying Thursday, based on a report.
Sources instructed TMZ that the 74-year-old “Bat Out of Hell” star was resulting from attend a enterprise dinner earlier this week for a present he's engaged on primarily based on his traditional hit, “I’d Do Something for Love.”
However he canceled as a result of he was severely unwell with COVID-19, along with his situation quickly changing into essential, the outlet’s sources stated.
It was not clear if he had been vaccinated. Reps for the star didn't instantly return requests for remark early Friday.
No explanation for dying was given within the announcement of his dying on his official Fb web page.
“Our hearts are damaged to announce that the incomparable Meat Loaf handed away tonight along with his spouse Deborah by his facet,” the publish stated.
“Daughters Pearl and Amanda and shut mates have been with him all through the final 24 hours.”
The singer and actor, actual title Michael Lee Aday, had develop into outspoken about COVID — ripping lockdowns and masks mandates final August in one in all his final interviews.
“If I die, I die, however I’m not going to be managed,” the rocker instructed The Pittsburgh Publish-Gazette.
Nonetheless, he admitted being fearful of the pandemic regardless of proudly providing to hug interviewer Scott Mervins, telling him, “I hug folks in the course of COVID.”
“Oh, I’m scared to dying! You kidding me? However I’m sorry, I understood stopping life for a short time, however they can't proceed to cease life due to politics,” the rocker instructed the paper.
“And proper now they’re stopping due to politics,” he stated.
He famous a brand new report on the time saying that “the masks we’re all carrying are ineffective.”
“However I’ve identified that for six months. They don’t do something,” he stated.
“They don’t cease you from getting COVID. They’re only a nuisance and make your nostril itch and make it so you possibly can’t breathe.”
He complained about “a Nazi” who shouted “Get your masks on now!” whereas he was on a aircraft, griping, “They’re power-mad now.”
In Might, he posted a clip of Eric Clapton and Van Morrison’s anti-lockdown music, “Stand & Ship,” writing, “Hear and Study.”
Early within the pandemic, the star wrote that “all of us want to come back collectively to battle the outbreak of this lethal virus.”
“So, please know easy methods to defend your self and others round you. It is necessary that each one of us observe the recommendation given to us from all our medical communities. Everyone seems to be in danger!” he wrote on the time.
However since then, most of his posts have been about the fitting to “carry on rockin’ within the free world,” quoting the Neil Younger music.
Meat Loaf has had quite a few well being scares through the years, surviving so many accidents, he as soon as joked that he was a “cat with 48 lives,” the Solar stated.
In November, he instructed followers that he “damage my again” and “have now had 4 again surgical procedures” in recent times.
“The again surgical procedures damage the whole lot,” he stated of his absence from the highlight. “Not a slight again ache. Ache that might carry you to your knees … I couldn't stroll get in or away from bed with out assist. May do nothing!!!!!”
He stated he now had “13 screws holding on a steel plate or plates in half my again. I inform ALL OF YOU, again surgical procedure is the very last thing you need to go for. Attempt the rest,” he wrote.
He sounded extra optimistic by the top of November, asserting hopes that his deliberate “TV present will begin up in March” — the final publish on his web page earlier than the official announcement of his dying.
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