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Willie Nelson recalls severe 2022 COVID bout in new memoir
Willie Nelson says a severe case of COVID in 2022 left him asking his wife to let him die.
The country musician recounts the illness in his new book, *The Last Leaf*, which was published Tuesday.
Annie D’Angelo said Nelson struggled to breathe and grew sicker while isolated on a bus.
She recalled arranging for a doctor and a mobile antibody treatment to meet them at a cabin.
Nelson received Paxlovid through an IV infusion instead of going to hospital.
D’Angelo said the illness lasted two weeks and that Nelson asked her to let him die twice.
His account describes how frighteningly severe the illness became for the couple.
Willie Nelson recalls that a severe bout of COVID-19 in 2022 left him asking his wife, Annie D’Angelo, to let him die.
In his new memoir, Nelson says he remembers feeling excruciating pain throughout his body.
D’Angelo recounts that Nelson struggled to breathe and grew sicker while isolated on a bus.
He received Paxlovid through an IV infusion instead of going to a hospital, which D’Angelo said was not an option because he would have no privacy.
Nelson’s memoir, The Last Leaf: Reflections on Late-Life Creativity — and My Longest Love Affair, hit shelves Tuesday.
- Who
- Willie Nelson and his wife, Annie D’Angelo.
- What
- Nelson recounts a severe 2022 COVID-19 illness during which he asked D’Angelo to let him die.
- When
- In 2022; the memoir was published Tuesday.
- Where
- On a bus and at a cabin, according to D’Angelo’s account.
- Why
- Nelson’s COVID-19 illness worsened, causing breathing difficulties and severe pain.
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Nelson contracted COVID-19 and grew sicker while isolated on a bus, according to D’Angelo.
Nelson received Paxlovid through an IV infusion instead of going to a hospital.
Nelson’s memoir hit shelves.
- COVID-19 illness
- 2022
- Wife
- Annie D’Angelo
- Treatment
- Paxlovid in an IV infusion
- Marriage
- Nelson and D’Angelo married in 1991
- Memoir
- The Last Leaf: Reflections on Late-Life Creativity — and My Longest Love Affair
What people are saying
all I can remember is feeling excruciating pain in every cell of my body.
I wasn’t sure you would make it.
It was the worst thing I’ve ever had to do.
two weeks of utter hell