Jerry Lewis Falls Ill In Sydney
– SYDNEY –edian Jerry Lewis was Friday forced to cancel a scheduled performance in Australia due to poor health, The Daily Telegraph reported.
The 85-year-old actor was set to appear in front of a sold out audience at the Rooty Hill RSL club, a western Sydney venue, when he suddenly felt unable to perform.
Chief executive officer of Rooty Hill RSL Richard Errington — who was with Lewis when he arrived at the club’s entrance — noted that theic looked ill.
“He couldn’t even get out of the car, he was pale and looked extremely unwell,” he said.
Candi Cazau, the entertainer’s Las Vegas-based publicist, told news agency Reuters that Lewis was briefly hospitalized, but was now “back to his normal routine.”
She said star was feeling “just feeling a little under the weather” on Friday night, but it was “nothing serious.”
Lewis is currently on his eighth Australian tour doing a series of concerts for the Muscular Dystrophy Foundation of Australia, a charity for which he has so far raised more than $2.45 billion worldwide over the past 61 years.
“I told the audience they could have refunds,” Errington said, “but they rose as one and gave Jerry Lewis a personal standing ovation of support and said his charity could keep their ticket proceeds as a donation.”
“It was a very touching gesture that was recorded and will be seen by Mr. Lewis when he is well.”
Australian public broadcaster the ABC reported Saturday that Lewis had wowed a crowd at an awards event in Sydney on Thursday night when he made an unexpected guest appearance.
Dressed in tracksuit pants and what looked like slippers, Lewis told the crowd at the Australian Council of Trade Unions’ event that his own long history as a union member made him an appropriate guest speaker for the awards.
“In the event there’s any doubt or question in your mind what I’m doing here, I feel it incumbent upon me to tell you that I hold 14 union cards and I been paying the goddamn dues for 50 years,” he said.
Lewis, who arrived in Australia on Monday, also performed at a gala dinner for 250 people in Brisbane on Wednesday night.
In recent years theic has suffered from heart issues, pulmonary fibrosis and a debilitating back condition, The Star-Ledger reported.
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