{"id":3827,"date":"2026-10-22T16:38:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T16:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/?p=3827"},"modified":"2026-10-22T16:38:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T16:38:42","slug":"lionel-richie-hospitalized-in-icu-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/?p=3827","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Richie hospitalized in ICU: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Richie is currently in the intensive care unit in St. Louis, after he was hospitalised after a\u00a0show\u00a0on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<em>TMZ<\/em>, the 77-year-old\u00a0<em>All Night Long<\/em>\u00a0hitmaker checked himself in to the hospital after failing to finish the concert.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"sc-jcIIqu hnxoGx\"><figcaption>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\">Lionel Richie has been hospitalised, with reports he is currently in the ICU. \u00a0<cite>Getty<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The music icon had been performing at The Muny in Forest Park and according to fans who were in the crowd, he was struggling a bit towards the end of the show.<\/p>\n<p>At one point he asked his team to bring him a chair to perform his final song in the show,\u00a0<em>All Night Long<\/em>, so he could sit down.<\/p>\n<p>TMZ is reporting that Richie is just being cautious and doctors are looking into possible dehydration.<\/p>\n<p>Richie\u2019s health has been a concern in recent months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Richie is currently in the intensive care unit in St. Louis, after he was hospitalised after a\u00a0show\u00a0on Saturday. According to\u00a0TMZ, the 77-year-old\u00a0All Night Long\u00a0hitmaker checked&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3831,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827\/revisions\/3831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}