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Marilyn Manson free of both pigs and flu
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 29 September 2009
Well, Marilyn Manson may have been insisting last week that he had swine flu, but he continued a tour of Canada up until its completion this weekend. You could say it was an enormous show of dedication to his fans, with the shock rocker battling on through it all to avoid causing anyone any disappointment. Or you could say he was lying about having the lurgey. His tour promoters seem to think it’s the latter.
As previously reported, Manson updated his Facebook status on 21 Sep, informing fans that he had “officially been diagnosed, by a real doctor, with the swine flu”, but claimed not to have contracted it by “fucking a pig”.
However, the co-promoters of Manson’s show at the Bell Centre in Montreal on 22 Sep followed-up the star’s claims with this statement: “The Gillett Entertainment Group and Live Nation confirmed today that contrary to rumours circulating, Marilyn Manson is not suffering from swine flu”.
Manson’s original status update has now been removed from his Facebook page (although it still appears on his Twitter feed) and was replaced on Friday with a statement saying: “Marilyn Manson has a clean bill of health and has fully recovered”.
