Grammy-winning singer Tori Kelly remained hospitalized in an intensive care unit on Monday after collapsing the night before while out at a Los Angeles restaurant with friends.
Kelly, 30, was being treated for blood clots around her lungs and in her legs, and doctors were working to determine whether they were also around her heart.
Her condition is “really serious,” a source told TMZ, which first reported the incident.
The singer was dining in downtown L.A. when she noted her heart was beating very rapidly, TMZ reported. She passed out “for a while” shortly afterward, the source said, and has been in and out of consciousness ever since.
Her friends took her to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the city’s premier hospital, rather than calling an ambulance that would have taken her elsewhere, the outlet reported.
Kelly won two Grammys in 2019 and earned Billboard’s Women in Music Breakthrough Artist Award in 2015. Her most recent tour was cut short by the COVID pandemic, and she told People in March that she was looking forward to getting back out on the road. She recently released “Missin u,” her first solo single in about three years.
The musician started singing and performing at age 12, appearing on the television show “America’s Most Talented Kid” and signing with Geffen Records. She started posting YouTube videos two years later and then in 2010 got as far as “Hollywood Week” in her audition for the ninth season of “American Idol,” falling short before the “Top 24.”
Her 2015 hit “Nobody Love” put her on the map, but a 2016 Grammy loss to Meghan Trainor pushed her to switch to gospel. In 2019 she won both the Best Gospel Album Award, for “Hidden Place,” and Best Gospel Performance/Song, for “Never Alone.”
The switch was all about “taking a step back and realizing, you know, I want to do a project that’s really close to my heart and something I’m really passionate about,” she told the Daily News backstage after her Grammy win. “The fact that it got this response and got nominated for two Grammys is insane. I’m I just so honored and so thankful.”