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Published 12:27 08 May 2020 GMT
Music legend and Queen guitarist Brian May has taken to social media to reveal that he has suffered injuries to his buttocks that recently left him requiring hospital treatment.
The 72-year-old rock icon said he has been left in "relentless pain" after a gardening injury resulted in him tearing the muscles in his "gluteus maximus".
Sharing a picture of himself wearing a protective facemask, the doctor of astrophysics informed his 2.4 million Instagram followers of his injury, writing:
"I managed to rip my gluteus maximus to shreds in a moment of overenthusiastic gardening. So suddenly I find myself in a hospital getting scanned to find out exactly how much I’ve actually damaged myself. Turns out I did a thorough job – this is a couple of days ago – and I won’t be able to walk for a while … or sleep, without a lot of assistance, because the pain is relentless."
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May concluded by saying he will be going "dark for a while" on social media, and "getting some complete rest, at home. Please, please don’t send me sympathy – I just need some healing silence for a while."
But taking to Instagram later that day, May posted a series of videos to his followers in which he addressed UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
In the videos, May described the leader as a "decent man", but says his predecessors left the UK's National Health Service (NHS) "underequipped" and "underfunded". He said:
"I believe you’re a decent man … but some terrible mistakes have been made under your watch. This country went into this crisis with a National Health [Service] that had been severely crippled by successive policies of successive governments, your predecessors, underequipped, underfunded, and we sent those doctors and nurses into battle without proper protection, which I think is a scandal that we forever must be ashamed of."
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Back in April, May that he believed coronavirus was caused by too many people eating meat. Speaking to NME, the 'We Will Rock You' legend said:
"That’s a central issue here, this pandemic seemed to come from people eating animals and it’s becoming more well known that eating animals is not the greatest thing for our health."
He added: "We've seen more of the effects of how eating animals has brought us to our knees as a species, I think it’s time to re-examine our world in a way that doesn’t abuse other species."
