T-Boz Calls Out ‘Disheartening’ Rumors About Her Recent Hospitalization

T-Boz released a statement on Instagram on Aug. 28, 2024, about her hospitalization.Photo byInstagram/T-Boz

Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins would like for fans to stop speculating about what led to her recent hospitalization.

The TLC singer posted a video statement to Instagram on Aug. 28, hoping to set the record straight about her health scare.

She began by thanking everyone for the "love and prayers," but said she was bothered by the fact that reps for TLC issued a press release last weekend, saying she had suffered a “severe abdominal blockage."

"I would have never put my business out there like that, but I guess because I missed shows it had to be said. But I just don't think it should have been so detailed 'cause I don't like people in my business -- and I don't like all this attention," T-Boz said in the video.

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The R&B singer noted that many of the rumors floating around the internet about her hospitalization are false.

"It had nothing to do with constipation. No, I'm not on Ozempic. Everybody and every celeb ain't on Ozempic, and I just want to say the ignorance is just, like, disheartening to me," she continued.

"People have died from what I just went through. Since it's out there, this can happen to any woman that's had a C-section or fibroid cysts or any abdominal surgery. It was scar tissue," she explained. "It had nothing to do with what I ate. It had nothing to do with the inside of my intestines. It was the outside."

T-Boz went on to remind her followers that she's battled sickle cell disease, since she was a child.

TLC is currently touring the U.S. and Canada. But in an interview with "The Breakfast Club" earlier this week, T-Boz said she plans to stop touring in the near future.

"Touring is hard!" she explained. "You ain't got to have a disease to [need] a break or get an injury."

"I ain't gonna lie. Yes, things are harder," she said about aging. "That's why I'm gearing up to retire, probably next year, it will be my last. So if y'all want to come and see TLC, I suggest you do it now because I'm not going to be doing this much longer."

After more than three decades in the music industry, T-Boz said she's grateful.

"I was told I wouldn't live past 30. I'm 54 and still on stage, selling out arenas and stadiums, traveling the world," she said. "This is a dream and something that I prayed for and God gave it to me."

TLC was formed in Atlanta in 1990, and consisted of T-Boz, Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas and the late Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes.

The Grammy-winning group has released several top-ten hits, including the #1 singles “Creep,” “Waterfalls,” “No Scrubs,” and “Unpretty.”