It was news that her fans had been fearing for weeks: singer Bonnie Tyler is dead. His entourage made the sad announcement on July 9.
While news was scarce in recent weeks, following her emergency hospitalization in Portugal, the terrible news broke: Bonnie Tyler is dead. The British singer was 75 years old.
What did Bonnie Tyler die of?
It is through a press release that the death of the interpreter of the legendary hits Total Eclipse of the Heart, Holding Out for a Hero or even It’s A Heartache was announced: “Bonnie’s family and team are devastated to announce that Bonnie passed away suddenly last night in a hospital in Portugal, following the illness for which she was being treated..”
Indeed, Bonnie Tyler was urgently admitted last May to a hospital in Faro (she lived most of the year in the Algarve, where she had a house, editor’s note), for intestinal surgery during which she suffered a cardiac arrest. Subsequently, the singer was placed in an artificial coma then in intensive care on respiratory assistance. In June, a relative revealed that she had been brought out of a coma but that her state of health remained serious…
“We will soon publish a new press release, but for the moment ask that our privacy be respected in order to get through this ordeal.“, added those close to him.
Bonnie Tyler: what do we know about her family?
Bonnie Tyler, whose real name is Gaynor Hopkins, was married since 1973 to the discreet Robert Sullivan (82 years old), a former judoka who participated in the Olympic Games who later became a real estate investor. The singer never had children. “I absolutely adore children (…) I had a miscarriage when I was 40, I waited too long you know? I would have preferred to try sooner but my career took over and it was always ‘next year, next year’“, she said to BBC Sounds.
The star, who represented the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2013, added: “We tried for a few years after but… everything is fine, we are happy.”
