Muni Long was given a week to live when she collapsed on tour in the US last autumn, and only a double lung transplant offered any hope of survival, the Grammy-winning R&B singer has revealed in a new interview.
After months of uncertainty around why Muni abruptly dropped out of Brandy and Monica's The Boy Is Mine tour. At the time, her team cited pneumonia. What was not made public was how quickly that diagnosis escalated into a full-blown medical emergency, compounded by the fact that Long lives with lupus, an autoimmune disease that can quietly attack organs for years before catastrophe arrives.