Tommy Fleming has said he has had ‘a week from hell’ after he was forced to postpone two concerts over the weekend.
The singer brought his concert series – An Intimate Evening of Songs & Stories – to Friars’ Gate Theatre in Kilmallock in Limerick on Saturday night.
But after two songs, the vocalist was forced to cancel his concert, saying he was battling the flu.
He told the disappointed audience: ‘Oh god this has been a week from hell.’
He started with one of his best known songs – The Contender but after the song, he said: ‘Fair warning. I will try and do the show.
‘It sounds awful so far. I could be calling it at any time. I’m sweating as well. It’s great to be here even though I’m only half here. We’ll try this next one.’
However, Tommy couldn’t continue, emotionally telling the audience: ‘I sound like I have the plague. We will reschedule the show. God I can’t believe this is happening. I tried it.
‘Thank you so much for turning up, for being here. Oh God this has been a week from hell but thank you. We will hopefully reschedule – I can’t even talk now – for two or three weeks’ time.
‘We will do a second show in the middle of that week for anyone who wants to go to that show and donate that show to a charity in the local area,’ he said, before adding: ‘I should have called it this morning but I thought I could do it.
‘I’m not a machine. Sometimes I just need to lie down,’ he added.
One of his fans in the sold-out theatre shouted, ‘Don’t worry about it – ‘tis grand’, while another audience member said: ‘It’s great to have you, Tommy.’
It comes just hours before his ex-wife Tina Mitchell told the Sunday Independent that she was ‘completely broken’ when their marriage ended after more than 20 years together.
Tina said: ‘ ‘I’ve lost two stone. I have lost my confidence and I have lost my mind. I cannot face anybody. I don’t think I’d be here today if it wasn’t for my family and friends.
‘I feel completely broken.
‘He shouldn’t have stolen 24 years of my life. I regret ever meeting him. I regret the 24 years that I’ve wasted. I could have been in a completely different situation in my life.
‘I regret all of the decisions I’ve made, all of them that have a huge impact for the rest of my days on all of us. I regret putting my best years into excelling his career. I should have been looking at retirement and planning for that, and I have nothing now,’ she added.
