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| Rapper Lil Wayne says fine after reported health scare Posted: 15 Mar 2013 06:01 PM PDT UPDATED @ 09:54:27 AM 16-03-2013
"I'm good everybody. Thx for the prayers and love," Wayne said in a Twitter message on his official account. The 30-year-old rapper's spokeswoman Sarah Cunningham said in an email that "Lil Wayne is recovering," but did not specify what he was suffering from. She was responding to a TMZ.com report citing unnamed sources which said Wayne was in critical condition, and near death, at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles. Rapper Mack Maine said in a Twitter posting earlier that Wayne was "alive and well. We watching the Syracuse (basketball) game...thanks for the prayers and concern." Maine said fans should not "believe the nonsense about comas and tubes to breathe." TMZ said the rapper was admitted to Cedars-Sinai for seizures and released on Wednesday. But the website said he was readmitted a few hours later after his bodyguard found him unconscious on the floor of his room. It said his mother was flying to Los Angeles yesterday to be at his bedside. Wayne, whose real name is Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., has suffered several unexplained seizures in the past few months, including two in January while on a plane flight. Wayne, a native of New Orleans, began rapping at the age of nine, when he became the youngest artist to be signed by Cash Money record label. The "Got Money" rapper has released nine studio albums over a two decade career and has become one of the biggest names in rap music. — Reuters |
| Bolshoi ballet chief vows to return after acid attack Posted: 15 Mar 2013 04:40 PM PDT
A masked assailant splashed acid in the face of Sergei Filin as he returned home from the Bolshoi on January 17. Police have charged a top dancer at the world-renowned theatre, Pavel Dmitrichenko, along with two alleged accomplices. Wearing dark glasses and a black hat and scarf, Filin appeared at a news conference with his doctor in the west German town of Aachen where he is undergoing treatment to save his eyesight. "I have plenty of strength and I have the confidence and desire to get back what was wrongly taken from me," said Filin. "I will do everything, and the doctors who work with me, they will do everything possible too, so I think together we will get great results," he said, speaking Russian. Filin, 42, described the exercises he did with his doctor, Martin Hermel, and said he felt a "great joy" when he was able to repeat certain movements. "When I can see everything again, I will have no fear and I would like to work again just as I did before. Without fear, without anxiety," he added. Hermel said there had been some improvement in Filin's left eye but that the right eye would probably require further surgery and other treatment. "Overall, we can say that we hope Mr Filin will recover sufficient vision to enable him to go back to his normal life and his professional life," said Hermel, head doctor at Aachen University's eye clinic. Asked about the suspect now in custody in Moscow, Filin said: "This person certainly belongs to that small circle of people whom I had suspected." Filin has previously said he believed he knew who was behind the attack on him. There has been lively debate in Moscow over possible motives for the attack, which police have so far given only as personal hostility based on a conflict at the Bolshoi. Sources close to the Bolshoi and Russia media reports have said Dmitrichenko was angry that his partner, Bolshoi ballerina Anzhelina Vorontsova, had missed out on top roles including the lead in the ballet classic Swan Lake. The acid attack shocked Russians but President Vladimir Putin's spokesman said this week it should not ruin the theatre's reputation. Dmitrichenko, 29, confessed in a police video to organizing the assault but said in court that he did not intend Filin's assailant to use acid. But about 300 performers at the Bolshoi have written a letter urging Putin to order a new inquiry, saying they believe Dmitrichenko confessed due to police pressure. — Reuters |
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