Bonnie Tyler, 74, reportedly had to be ‘resuscitated after going into cardiac arrest’.
The Welsh singer’s health condition has reportedly worsened since late last week following life-saving surgery for a burst appendix, Portuguese publication Correio da Manha reported.
She will remain in an induced coma in an intensive care unit at Faro Hospital until medics manage to control the ‘serious infection’ she is suffering caused by a perforated intestine, the paper said.
Her long-term friend Liberto Mealha said overnight doctors are ‘positive’ she can make a full recovery despite the ongoing uncertainty about how things will evolve.
More details have emerged regarding Bonnie’s health which led to her emergency bowel surgery and the removal of her appendix.
Mr Mealha, who first met The Total Eclipse of the Heart singer when he opened a well-known Albufeira nightclub in the eighties near to the artist’s holiday home, said last week: ‘She started feeling unwell during a concert in London and went to a doctor for tests, but they didn’t detect anything there.
‘She decided to travel to the Algarve, where she began to feel severe abdominal pain. Two days later, she went to a private hospital, which urgently transferred her to the hospital in Faro because her appendix had burst and she needed emergency surgery.’
It was reported Bonnie first started feeling unwell around a month ago and had been bedridden for two days at her Algarve home before her worried husband, Robert Sullivan, took her to the private hospital she was seen at before being transferred to Faro.
A spokesman for the singer said late last Thursday Bonnie had been put in the coma to ‘aid her recovery’ after reports she had suffered a burst appendix.
A day earlier the spokesman had said: ‘We are very sorry to announce that Bonnie has been admitted to hospital in Faro, Portugal, where she has a home, for emergency intestinal surgery.
‘The surgery went well and she is now recuperating.
‘We know that all of her family, friends and fans will be concerned about this news and will be wishing her well for a full and swift recovery.’
Bonnie, who has had multiple Top Ten hits in her long career and competed at the Eurovision Song Contest representing the UK in 2013, is believed to have been rushed to hospital on April 30.
Sources say she had been keeping busy in the run-up to her hospitalisation despite complaining of persistent pain for several weeks.
Mr Mealha, whose daughter is Bonnie’s goddaughter, said last week the singer’s husband was spending his days by her hospital bedside and only leaving to sleep at home at nighttime.
He added: ‘He’s very grateful to the doctors and nurses at the Faro hospital and believes that if Bonnie had stayed in the United Kingdom she would no longer be here.’
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