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Mother of teenager with Tourette’s says Lewis Capaldi's Glastonbury performance was powerful
25.06.2023 - 18:23 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
The mother of a teenager with Tourette’s has said that Lewis Capaldi’s Glastonbury performance left her in tears because of the “amazingly powerful” impact it will have on raising awareness for the condition.
On Saturday, June 24, Lewis, sang ballads including Someone You Loved to Glastonbury festival-goers while performing on the Pyramid Stage. The Scottish singer-songwriter has Tourette’s, a neurological condition which causes involuntary muscle movements and sounds known as tics,
During the performance, he stopped singing due to losing his voice earlier in his set and repeated tics, and the crowd responded by belting out the lyrics of his hits to show their support. For Laura Hummersone, whose 19-year-old son Harry has the condition, the performance had an emotional impact on them.
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“Watching Lewis yesterday, in that moment, I think he did more for Tourette’s than any charity or education on the topic in all the times I’ve known about Tourette’s. I was in tears,” the 50-year-old who works in the criminal investigation department of the police force told the PA news agency.
The pair watched Lewis' performance on TV together from their home in Farnborough, Hampshire, with Ms Hummersone adding that Harry gradually started smiling from seeking solace in the fact that he and Lewis both had similar tics.
“[Lewis] was openly ticing and my son tries to suppress his most of the time when he’s out, which means that when he comes home, he has these huge tic attacks where he can barely do anything”, she said. “Some of the tics that Lewis was doing were tics that my son does on a regular daily basis, jerking the head.”
Harry was diagnosed with
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