In the spring of 2020, news came that Marianne Faithfull was deathly ill from Covid. The virus was at a murderous high then and it affected her in the worst way possible, causing her to lose consciousness, necessitating a rush to an intensive care unit where she was intubated with little hope of survival. “All I know is that I was in a very dark place,” Faithfull told the Guardian in an interview one year later. “Presumably, it was death.”
Faithfull survived, but the intensity of the virus, combined with her underlying condition of emphysema, compromised her lungs to the point where she may never be able to sing again. That left her with a double whammy – the potential loss of any fresh source of income and the steep cost of recovery from long Covid. While her situation has been deeply concerning for many fans, one of them actually decided to do something about it.
