Matthew Sweet ‘may never play guitar again’ after suffering a stroke during the early days of his tour in Toronto, Canada.
The 60-year-old rocker – who is famed for hit songs including Girlfriend and I’ve Been Waiting – was on tour with Hanson in October when he suffered a major stroke, his manager Russell Carter revealed in a statement to Entertainment Weekly.
Catherine Lyons from his management team has set up a GoFundMe on behalf of him to help with medical costs, with Sweet now sharing an update on his condition with fans.
Describing how the stroke felt at the time, he wrote: ‘I was colder than I’ve ever been and an icy sweat came from every pore.
‘Then I heard a deafening white noise in both my ears growing, and growing and growing in volume, and my eyes started to scramble like eggs in a pan.
‘I was in an ambulance …