- Culture
- 08 May 20
The Queen guitarist says he won't be able to walk for a while and is suffering from relentless pain.
Brian May has been hospitalised after tearing his buttock muscles in a gardening injury. The Queen guitarist discussed his injury in an Instagram post, explaining that "the pain is relentless" and the injury is serious enough to render him unable to walk for a while.
“I managed to rip my gluteus maximus to shreds in a moment of overenthusiastic gardening. So suddenly I find myself in a hospital getting scanned to find out exactly how much I’ve actually damaged myself. Turns out I did a thorough job – this is a couple of days ago – and I won’t be able to walk for a while … or sleep, without a lot of assistance, because the pain is relentless.”
An enthusiastic Instagrammer, May said that he would "go dark for a while" to get some rest as he recovers, however he has still taken to the platform to post content criticising Boris Johnson's handling of the COVID-19 crisis, along with environmental and social issues including aninal welfare, pollution and "gross inequality".
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A vocal vegan, May also previously attributed the spread of the coronavirus to people eating animals in an NME interview last month.
"This country went into this crisis with a National Health [Service] that had been severely crippled by successive policies of successive governments, your predecessors, underequipped, underfunded, and we sent those doctors and nurses into battle without proper protection, which I think is a scandal that we forever must be ashamed of", he said in the 5-minute video.