Fiona Apple said on Tuesday she is postponing a tour of South American cities because her dog is dying.
Ms. Apple posted an image of a hand-written letter on her Facebook page explaining that her dog Janet, a pit bull she found as a puppy in Echo Park in Los Angeles, suffers from Addison?s disease and has a tumor in her chest. She said the dog?s health has worsened in recent days and the animal appears to be close to death.
?I just can?t leave her now, please understand,? Ms. Apple wrote to her fans. ?If I go away again, I?m afraid she?ll die and I won?t have the honor of singing her to sleep, of escorting her out.?
Ms. Apple recently finished the North American leg of her tour to promote her most recent album, ?The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do.? She was scheduled to do three concerts in Brazil next week, then travel to Argentina and Mexico.
In her letter, Ms. Apple described her extremely close relationship with her pet, writing that ?Janet has been the most consistent relationship of my adult life, and that is just a fact.?
?She?s my best friend and my mother and my daughter, my benefactor, and she?s the one who taught me what love is,? Ms. Apple wrote.
Ms. Apple said the dog ?slept in bed with me, her head on the pillow, and she accepted my hysterical, tearful face into her chest, with her paws around me, every time I was heartbroken, or spirit-broken, or just lost, and as years went by, she let me take the role of her child, as I fell asleep, with her chin resting above my head.?
?She was under the piano when I wrote songs, barked any time I tried to record anything, and she was in the studio with me all the time we recorded the last album,? Ms. Apple said.
Ms. Apple said she had found the dog about 13 years ago with a rope around its neck. It appeared to have been pitted against other, more aggressive dogs to build up their confidence in illegal dog fights, she wrote. She added that the dog was ?a pacifist? that never barked or growled.
Saying she ?will not be the woman who puts her career ahead of love and friendship,? the singer-songwriter said she intended to stay home and bake tilapia for her pet and make it comfortable during its last days.
?I need to do my damnedest to be there for that,? she wrote. ?Because it will be the most beautiful, the most intense, the most enriching experience of life I?ve ever known. When she dies.?
Source: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/20/fiona-apple-postpones-tour-to-care-for-dying-dog/
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