Pink Postpones Two Aussie Shows With Respiratory Infection

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Pink makes a stop at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Mich., March 18, 2018,

Pink has postponed two of her nine Sydney shows, blaming a continuous upper respiratory infection. She initially missed only the Aug. 3 date at Qudos Bank Arena while she recuperated in Byron Bay. But hours before the Aug. 6 concert was to start, Live Nation announced that would be postponed as well.

The singer will be in Australia until Aug. 23, when her 35-date Aussie leg of the Beautiful Trauma tour winds up. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, she is spending Monday night in hospital after being diagnosed with dehydration and a gastric virus.

Pink took to Instagram to lash back at the “parasite” paparazzi over a misleading photo, which saw her on the Byron Bay beach with daughter Willow, and insinuated she was holidaying rather than working.

She wrote “(They) don’t show you, is two doctor visits in Byron on two consecutive days, antibiotics, steroids, Vick’s, nose spray, throat spray, more steroids, NyQuil, a screaming baby in the middle of the night, every night, while mama gives him warm baths and tells her daughter everything is fine. You can think whatever you want, it’s your right, but I have never taken advantage of any one in my entire life.”

Pink’s North American tour leg grossed $95.6 million on 46 shows, putting her at the top of Pollstar’s 2018 Mid Year Top 100 North American tours. She hits North America for a similar-sized run in early 2019.

She’s always huge Down Under, where her manager, Roger Davies, hails from. He told Pollstar last year that Europe was likely next.