Rapper Donald Glover, who performs under the name Childish Gambino, said during a show Saturday that he was forced to cancel several dates on his world tour last year because he had a stroke.

Glover, 42, made the announcement during his performance at the Camp Flog Gnaw festival in Los Angeles, USA Today reports .

“I was doing this world tour,” he said, according to The Guardian . “I was having lots of fun, really loving seeing you guys out there. I had a really bad pain in my head in Louisiana and I did the show anyway. I couldn’t really see well, so when we went to Houston, I went to the hospital and the doctor was like, ‘You had a stroke.’ ...

“The first thing was like, ‘I’m letting everybody down.’ I know it’s not true.”

Glover said doctors discovered he had a hole in his heart

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