Fiona Apple has postponed her South American tour to nurse her dying 13-year-old pitbull.
Fiona Apple has postponed her South American tour so she can take care of her dying 13-year-old pitbull, whom she calls her 'best friend, mother, daughter and the one who taught me how to love'.
In an extraordinary four-page letter posted to her website and Facebook page, the singer explained her decision to forgo her 12-date tour, which was due to start in Brazil next week.
'Here's the thing,' she wrote in the scanned letter. 'I have a dog Janet, and she's been ill for almost two years now, as a tumor has been idling in her chest, growing ever so slowly.
'I know that she is coming close to point where she will stop being a dog, and instead, be part of everything. She'll be in the wind, and in the soil, and the snow, and in me, wherever I go.
'I can't come to South America, not now. If I go away again, I'm afraid she'll die and I won't have the honour of singing her to sleep, of escorting her out.'
The poetic letter explains she found Janet in Echo Park in Los Angeles ten years ago 'with a rope around her neck, and bites all over her ears and face' - a sign she had been used as a fighting dog.
'I can't come to South America, not now. If I go away again, I'm afraid she'll die and I won't have the honour of singing her to sleep, of escorting her out.'
The poetic letter explains she found Janet in Echo Park in Los Angeles ten years ago 'with a rope around her neck, and bites all over her ears and face' - a sign she had been used as a fighting dog.
The dog gave her support 'every time I was heartbroken, or spirit-broken, or just lost' and sat beside her as she wrote and recorded four albums, Apple explained.
But recently, Janet has slowed. She suffers from Addison's disease, an adrenal deficiency, and requires regular injections of Cortisol. Two years ago, veterinarians found a tumor in her chest.
'When I got back from the last leg of the US tour, there was a big, big difference. She doesn't even want to go for walks anymore,' she wrote. 'I just can't leave her now, please understand.'
She concluded her letter by explaining that, although she often takes 20 minutes to choose which socks to wear, the decision to drop out of the tour was easy.Jacked from The Daily Mail
4 comments:
Beautiful, yet so sad. I would have done the same thing.
Way to pay back the love she showed her. Animals are not just animals once you take them into your life. They become family and should be treated as such.
Agreed, and I give her mad respect.
i would do the same thing for my baby too.
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