Muni Long is opening up about a recent health scare where she had to undergo a double lung transplant after doctors told her she had one week to live.
Last fall, the Grammy-winning R&B singer was on the road as one of the opening acts on Brandy and Monica’s “The Boy Is Mine” tour, but officially pulled out after a bout of pneumonia. The 37-year-old told Good Morning America that doctors then advised her that her situation was dire and that she needed surgery to survive.
“I should have never taken that tour, but there was so much going on in my life that I had to do it,” explained Long, who suffers from Lupus, an autoimmune disease. “About midway through, we’re up in the north east, it’s really cold, and with autoimmune, the cold is really not your friend. I got really sick, I got pneumonia, I had to step away for a few dates. But I’m like this is not it, I got to go back. I went back and I think maybe about five or six dates in, I was like, this is not… I couldn’t even get out of bed to make my call time for the stage. And the last show, I just barely made it, I was only able to do two songs. My team and my family were like, you just need to come home and rest.”
Long said that she knew something had been wrong for a while, and that she was taking medicines just to get her through the day. After she came home from the tour for Thanksgiving, she woke up in the hospital when doctors advised that she had to undergo a life-saving operation.
