Brandy and Monica, the once-feuding stars of R&B, are singing every others’ praises after their reunion tour hit an sudden hurdle over the weekend.
Singer-actor Brandy despatched digital flowers to “my sister, Monica, for stepping up with such grace and professionalism” as she defined her abrupt exit from the duo’s Chicago live performance on Saturday. The “Cinderella” star, 46, turned heads on the Chicago’s United Middle when she walked off stage mid-performance, in keeping with video shared by TMZ, leaving Monica to complete performing their Grammy-winning hit “The Boy Is Mine,” solo.
“I sincerely apologize for the abrupt finish to final evening’s efficiency in Chicago. After weeks of nonstop rehearsals, final evening I skilled dehydration and emotions of eager to faint,” Brandy mentioned in an Instagram assertion shared Sunday. “Everybody concerned agreed that prioritizing my well-being was of the utmost significance.”
The “Afrodisiac” artist defined that it was her choice to push ahead with the live performance, “regardless of not feeling OK.” Even after making “some changes,” Brandy mentioned it was finally “unattainable to completely join sonically with the manufacturing.” The “Lacking You” singer mentioned she left the world and was handled by a health care provider and has “taken the right precautions to assist transferring ahead.”
Brandy and Monica introduced their co-headlining Boy Is Mine tour in June and kicked off the exhibits Thursday in Cincinnati. They’re set to carry out on the Kia Discussion board on Nov. 9.
A day after her sudden walk-off, Brandy was again on stage Sunday with Monica on the Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. She shared pictures from their newest gig to Instagram on Monday.
“You completely killed it final evening @brandy,” Monica mentioned in her Instagram story on Monday, reposting the singer’s pictures.
Brandy and Monica launched into their Boy Is Mine tour 27 years after releasing the namesake single in 1998. The singers, who shared a contentious relationship notably outlined by an alleged altercation on the VMAs in 1998, earned a Grammy award for the hit.
Earlier than launching their tour, Brandy and Monica had reunited a number of instances for a number of initiatives, together with a remix of their hit with Ariana Grande and a 2020 look on “Verzuz.” Whereas selling the tour in June, Monica informed CBS Mornings that their feud “began as nothing and it actually did flip into one thing.”
“There was a variety of confusion and battle and there was lots of people round,” she mentioned, including that she and Brandy had been merely youngsters when their feud got here to a head.
The Boy Is Mine tour continues Friday with a cease in Nashville and can conclude Dec. 14 on the VyStar Veterans Memorial Area in Jacksonville, Fla.
Employees author Julius Miller contributed to this report.
