Doja Cat had to pull out of her summer commitments due to tonsil surgery. “Hi guys. I wanted you to hear it from me first,” she wrote Friday on social media. “Unfortunately I have to have surgery on my tonsils ASAP. The surgery is routine but the recovery is going to take awhile due to swelling. That means I have to cancel my festival run this summer as well as The Weeknd tour. I feel horrible about this but can’t wait for this to heal and get back to making music and create an experience for y’all.”

https://twitter.com/DojaCat/status/1527737897809432576?s=20&t=cKToWxntLiZUUq3HlefBlA

The move wasn’t totally unexpected, as Doja Cat described the procedure in detail Thursday on Twitter, explaining that her tonsils got infected before the Billboard Music Awards. “I had an abscess in it. My whole throat is [expletive],” she wrote in part. “… My tonsils got infected before BBMAs and I was taking [expletive] antibiotics but forgot that I was taking them and then I drank wine and was vaping all day long. Then I started getting a nasty [expletive] growth on my tonsil so they had to do surgery on it [Thursday].” She has a way with words…

https://twitter.com/DojaCat/status/1527419175966081024?s=20&t=cKToWxntLiZUUq3HlefBlA

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