Florence Welch shares ectopic pregnancy that put her life at risk

Florence Welch has revealed that she lost a fallopian tube after experiencing an ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage.

"My doctor's insistence that I come in saved my life," the Florence + the Machine singer shared.

"The closest I came to making life was the closest I came to death."

In a new profile with The Guardian published over the weekend, Welch spoke about a miscarriage she went through two summers ago. She became pregnant almost immediately after she and her partner decided to try for a baby, but it turned out to be an ectopic pregnancy that caused one of her fallopian tubes to rupture.

"I felt like I had stepped through this door, and it was just full of women, screaming," she told the outlet.

Welch miscarried shortly before she was meant to perform at a festival in Cornwall.

"I took some ibuprofen and stepped out on stage," she recalled.

"I didn't want to go for the scan," she admitted. "I thought, 'I've done this show, I'm fine, I can cope.' But my doctor's insistence that I come in saved my life."

At the appointment, Welch discovered the rupture and was taken for emergency surgery. "I had a Coke can's worth of blood in my abdomen," she reflected, adding that doctors were unable to save her fallopian tube.

Her experience has shaped her upcoming record, Everybody Scream, which will be released this Halloween.