Justin Timberlake Reveals He's Been Diagnosed With Lyme Disease

Justin Timberlake, who conscionable wrapped his world circuit connected Wednesday, revealed he has been battling Lyme disease.

The popular vocalist said he decided to stock his test “to shed immoderate ray connected what I’ve been up against down nan scenes.”

His station besides came aft he received backlash online from fans who attended nan Electric Castle show successful Romania earlier this month. In TikTok videos posted by respective attendees, nan Grammy victor is seen telling nan crowd to “sing, c’mon” while performing his hit, “Can’t Stop nan Feeling.” Some expressed disappointment astatine nan performance, commenting successful their posts that they felt Timberlake “barely sang.”

“If you’ve knowledgeable this illness aliases cognize personification who has — past you’re aware: surviving pinch this tin beryllium relentlessly debilitating, some mentally and physically,” he said successful an Instagram station connected Thursday.

Timberlake said his test came arsenic a shock, but explained why he would acquisition “a monolithic magnitude of nervus pain,” fatigue aliases sickness while performing. He kicked disconnected his “The Forget Tomorrow World Tour” successful April 2024 successful Vancouver and wrapped Wednesday successful Turkey.

He said he weighed nan determination to extremity nan tour, but yet “decided nan joyousness that performing brings maine acold outweighs nan fleeting accent my assemblage was feeling.”

“I’m truthful gladsome I kept going,” he continued, saying that nan circuit has been “the astir fun, emotional, gratifying, physically demanding, and, astatine times, grueling experience.”

“I’m truthful gladsome I kept going,” he posted. “Not only did I beryllium my intelligence tenacity to myself but, I now person truthful galore typical moments pinch each of you that I will ne'er forget. I was reluctant to talk astir this because I was ever raised to support thing for illustration this to yourself. But I americium trying to beryllium much transparent astir my struggles truthful that they aren’t misinterpreted.”

After Timberlake revealed his diagnosis, galore fans expressed their support successful nan comments. “Rooting for your treatment familia, monolithic of you to forge up successful nan midst of it each for nan emotion of nan euphony and your audience,” wrote chap creator Miguel.

Lyme illness is dispersed to group done nan wound of blacklegged ticks, nan Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. Symptoms see fever, fatigue, headache and a tegument rash. It tin dispersed to nan heart, joints and tense strategy if near untreated.