Mum of Tourette's sufferer praises Lewis Capaldi after Glastonbury performance
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Capaldi, who himself has Tourette's, stopped singing due to losing his voice earlier in his set and repeated tics on the Pyramid Stage on Saturday.Laura Hummersone, from Farnborough, said it was an emotional watch as her son Harry, 19, has similar tics. "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," she said.
"Some of the tics that Lewis was doing were tics that my son does on a regular daily basis, jerking the head."
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