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Danielle Desouza & Ellie Kemp

Mother of teenager with Tourette’s says Lewis Capaldi's Glastonbury performance was powerful

The mother of a teenager with Tourette’s has said that Lewis Capaldi’s Glastonbury performance left her in tears because of the “amazingly powerful” impact it will have on raising awareness for the condition.

On Saturday, June 24, Lewis, sang ballads including Someone You Loved to Glastonbury festival-goers while performing on the Pyramid Stage. The Scottish singer-songwriter has Tourette’s, a neurological condition which causes involuntary muscle movements and sounds known as tics,

During the performance, he stopped singing due to losing his voice earlier in his set and repeated tics, and the crowd responded by belting out the lyrics of his hits to show their support. For Laura Hummersone, whose 19-year-old son Harry has the condition, the performance had an emotional impact on them.

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