{"id":403,"date":"2026-09-03T00:29:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T00:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=403"},"modified":"2026-09-03T00:29:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T00:29:43","slug":"lionel-richie-returns-home-after-checking-himself-into-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=403","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Richie returns home after checking himself into hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2026-09-02\/Getty_LionelRichie_090226.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Music legend and Acrisure brand ambassador Lionel Richie headlines the Acrisure Amphitheater Opening Concert on May 15, 2026 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. (Jeff Schear\/Getty Images for Acrisure Amphitheater)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lionel Richie is back home and on the mend after being hospitalized, ABC News has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Hello&#8221; artist checked himself into a hospital out of an abundance of caution after headlining a summer concert over the weekend, a source close to the singer&#8217;s tour told ABC News earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Richie performed in St. Louis at The Muny&#8217;s annual summer finale concert on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>According to TMZ on Monday, concertgoers reportedly saw Richie appearing to struggle toward the end of the show and performing his final song, &#8220;All Night Long,&#8221; while sitting down.<\/p>\n<p>Richie&#8217;s hospitalization came more than two months after he experienced dizziness onstage during the opening night of his tour with Earth, Wind &amp; Fire in Minnesota on June 24.<\/p>\n<p>Several videos shared online at the time showed Richie performing while seated during that show.<\/p>\n<p>Richie subsequently postponed two shows &#8212; one in Columbus, Ohio, and another in Chicago &#8212; after being advised by doctors to &#8220;rest and return to full health,&#8221; according to Live Nation Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>He returned to the stage on June 30 for a performance with Earth, Wind &amp; Fire in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>Along with his rescheduled tour dates, Richie is expected to take the stage at the Wynn in Las Vegas in October and November for his <em>King of Hearts<\/em> shows.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music legend and Acrisure brand ambassador Lionel Richie headlines the Acrisure Amphitheater Opening Concert on May 15, 2026 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. (Jeff Schear\/Getty Images for Acrisure Amphitheater) Lionel Richie is back home and on the mend after being hospitalized, ABC News has confirmed. The &#8220;Hello&#8221; artist checked himself into a hospital out of an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":790,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}