During the performance, he stopped singing due to losing his voice earlier in his set and repeated tics - and the crowd supported him
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, Capaldi, who himself has Tourette’s, a neurological condition which causes involuntary muscle movements and sounds known as tics, sang ballads including Someone You Loved to Glastonbury festival-goers while performing on the Pyramid Stage.
The pair watched Capaldi’s 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 Capaldi both had similar tics. “[Capaldi] 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.
Ms Hummersone said she was particularly struck by how much the crowd supported Capaldi. “The acceptance, tolerance, understanding, empathy and compassion which the crowd showed yesterday was phenomenal”, she said. “I think the condition is still so misunderstood and people think you only tic when stressed. “With Lewis, he was ticing doing something he loved – sometimes it distracts you from what you’re doing, other times it doesn’t.
Ms Craven, a 42-year-old teacher, said: “[James] sat there this morning while I was doing the ironing and wrote this letter without any prompting or anything like that. I was really proud of him because it absolutely came from his heart.” “He was singing along, the whole living room was singing along with him”, she said. “Also, everybody watching held their breath a little bit, I think, because James knows what having tics is like and when attention is drawn to them, it just makes them worse.”
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