- TLC’s Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins has taken to social media to address rumors circulating online after she suffered an “abdominal block” that forced the group to cancel shows
- Watkins, 54, said she doesn’t like to “put my business out there like that” but “it had to be said” as her health condition resulted in the show being cancelled.
- She explained that she had a scar tissue blockage – and said her problem wasn’t due to constipation, Ozempic or her ongoing battle with sickle cell anemia
Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins’ is speaking out about the rumors that have spread since her recent medical diagnosis, which has caused TLC to cancel some upcoming shows.
On Aug. 24, Watkins, 54, and bandmate Rozanda “Chilli” Thomas said Watkins “experienced sudden and severe nausea, vomiting and intense abdominal cramps” after an Aug. 22 show in Toledo, Ohio.
She was diagnosed with “abdominal blockage” — and the group canceled several upcoming shows.
TLC’s Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins and Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas perform with Latta in April 2024.
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However, as Watkins said in a video posted on her Instagram on August 28, “I would never put my work out there like that, but I guess I had to say it because I missed the shows, but I just don’t think it should have been that detailed because I don’t like people in their work — and I don’t like all this attention.”
She continued: “It had nothing to do with prison. No, I’m not in Ozempic. Everyone and every celebrity is not in Ozempic and I just want to say that this ignorance just discourages me.”
“People have died from what I just went through,” she said, adding that “Because it’s out there, this can happen to any woman who’s had a C-section or fibroid cysts or any abdominal surgery. It was scar tissue. It had nothing to do with what I ate. It had nothing to do with the inside of my intestines. It was from the outside.”
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She explained that the blockage is “a scar from a 24-year-old previous surgery,” which “bumps against each other because your small intestines are moving. And it just blocked him. And that’s it.”
“It’s very painful and I don’t wish this on anyone — and it’s not sickle cell related,” she said, referring to her ongoing battle with the blood disorder, which the Cleveland Clinic explains “affects your red blood cells, turning them from round, flexible discs into rigid and sticky sickle cells.”
Watkins said “I’ve been in the hospital so many other times for sickle cell,” adding, “I don’t talk at all when I’m sick.”
Still, she says, “stop associating anything with my name with sickle cell… I’m Tionne Watkins. I happen to have a disease that is not who I am and all that I am.”
“Everything that’s happening to me has nothing to do with sickle cell.”
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The “Waterfalls” singer said she was out of the hospital for three days, and while it was “excruciating,” she is “blessed and working again.”
As she wrote in the caption, “let me help educate some since there are so many new doctors here and you all seem to know so much about everything but nothing….😳 Be happy and healthy…. I’ll be seeing Yall soon at the delayed shows… Great and blessed!!! ”
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