Donald Glover is sharing details about a recent health scare that forced him to cancel his Childish Gambino tour last year.

In October 2024, Glover announced that he had discovered an ailment that required surgery but did not elaborate on his condition.

Glover, who performs under the moniker Childish Gambino, said Saturday night at a performance that a doctor told him he’d had a stroke .

The 42-year-old rapper shared the information on stage at Tyler, the Creator’s Camp Flog Gnaw festival in Los Angeles.

“You guys voted for a ‘Where have I been’ monologue,” Glover said. “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.'”

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