‘They won’t resuscitate her if things go wrong’: Boy George urges fans to pray for his ‘beautiful mum’ as she is hospitalised due to ‘a problem with her heart or lung’
- The singer, 58, does not believe his mother Dinah has the coronavirus
- George has four brothers and one sister. His father Jeremiah died in 2003
- In 2017, he detailed how he kept his mother alive following an overdose
- He said of his late father: ‘I really loved him, but he wasn’t a good dad and he wasn’t a good husband’
- Learn more about how to help people impacted by COVID
Boy George has asked his fans to pray for his ‘beautiful mother’ after she was hospitalised and doctors said they ‘won’t resuscitate if things go wrong.’
While medical experts have yet to determine if Dinah O’Dowd’s medical issues are down to her heart or lungs, the singer, 58, does not think she has Covid: 19.
But he questioned the ‘do not resuscitate’ order saying how can doctors know that it definitely won’t work.
‘They won’t resuscitate her if things go wrong’: Boy George took to Twitter on Thursday to urge fans to pray for his ‘beautiful mum’ as she is hospitalised due to an issue with her organs (pictured in 2011)
Please pray: Boy George, real name George O’Dowd took to Twitter to reveal how worried he is about his beloved mother
Taking to Twitter on Thursday, the Culture Club star, real name George O’Dowd wrote: ‘My beautiful mum is in the Queen Elizabeth hospital in Woolwich.
‘A problem with her heart or lungs. She’s stable but they have said they won’t resuscitate her if things go wrong?
‘Apparently, it won’t work? How can they know. Please pray! @LG_NHS.’
Someone then asked him: ‘Is it Covid: 19?’ and he replied: ‘We don’t think so.’
Love: George, pictured with his beloved mother in 1984, has four brothers and one sister. His father Jeremiah died in 2003
The singer has four brothers and one sister. His father Jeremiah died in 2003 but George has spoken in the past about how his father beat his mother.
In 2017, he detailed how he once kept his mother alive following an overdose.
Talking on Piers Morgan’s Life Stories, he said: ‘She took pills. I remember sort of keeping her awake and not really understanding what had happened.’
Referencing the problems between his mother and father, George had said: ‘I used to tell my mum to leave my dad when I was like nine.
His rock: Referencing the problems between his mother and father, George had said: ‘I used to tell my mum to leave my dad when I was like nine’ (pictured with his mother in 2008)
‘I loved my father don’t get me wrong, I really loved him, but he wasn’t a good dad and he wasn’t a good husband.’
In a previous interview with The Guardian, Boy George admitted he was the ‘deranged’ middle child who was very different to his siblings.
He said: ‘I’m the middle, needy, child. The middle child is always deranged. My brother Kevin, who was born the year after me, was born with tapeworm and nearly died.
‘For about two years I was kind of not that important. I don’t know whether that had a profound effect on me.
‘All I remember about being a child is being quite independent. I used to go off a lot and walk for miles and, from about 11, I remember discovering where David Bowie lived and I used to go and sit outside his house.
‘I wasn’t interested in the sort of things my brothers were interested in. They liked Farrah Fawcett-Majors and beautiful girls and I liked Bowie, jewellery and Busby Berkeley. Family to me is stability, it’s reliability.’
Family is everything: Boy George with brother Gerald, mother Dinah, father Jerry, (second from right), brother Kevin and sister Siobhan, (centre) in New York in November 1984