In 2024, Donald Glover was hospitalized following a Childish Gambino show in New Orleans, Louisiana. Last night (November 22), during his first performance since then, Glover revealed that he had suffered from a stroke. “I had a really bad pain in my head in Louisiana, and I did the show anyway. I couldn’t really see well,” he told the crowd at Tyler, the Creator’s annual Camp Flog Gnaw festival. At the time, Glover called off his next show in Houston, Texas, and went to a hospital in the city, where he was diagnosed.
Glover continued, “The first thing I thought was like, ‘Oh, like, here I am still copying Jamie Foxx.’ That’s really like the second thing. The first thing was like, ‘I’m letting everybody down.’” He went on to describe a spate of other health problems he’d experienced over the last year, including a broken foot and a hole in his heart, both of which required surgery.
“They say everybody has two lives, and the second life starts when you realize you have one. You should be living your life how you want. If we have to do this again, it can only get better,” Glover reflected. Watch his full Camp Flog Gnaw set below.
After his hospitalization, Glover was forced to cancel the rest of his world tour in support of 2024’s Bando Stone and the New World. He has described the album as his last under the Childish Gambino moniker.