UPDATE TO BELOW STORY......
Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Johnny Van Zant has posted a video explaining his family emergency that resulted in the band having to cancel five shows on their Sharp Dressed Simple Man tour with ZZ Top.
He says, “A couple of days ago, [my youngest daughter] Taylor started having [a] numbing feeling on her right side. She went to the emergency room. They did a CAT scan and they found a ... mass on her brain. And some of it was bleeding, that was causing the numbing part.”
He goes onto say that doctors don't believe it's cancer and "they’re still doing a lot of testing and we’re not out of the woods yet, but we’re in a lot better position than we thought we were in, in the beginning.”
In 2018, Van Zant lost his oldest daughter Lindsay to cancer.
Van Zant is also asking for prayers for Skynyrd's bus driver Brad Gibson. After bringing the bus to Utah, he took a scooter to buy a card for Taylor when he had an accident and struck his head, landing him in the Intensive Care Unit.
Skynyrd is scheduled to resume their tour on Saturday at the Field & Stream Festival in Winnsboro Mills, South Carolina.
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Lynyrd Skynyrd has announced that they had to cancel some shows due to a health emergency. Frontman Johnny Van Zant recently had to take his daughter to the hospital after she started having numbing feelings on her right side. Doctors apparently found a “mass on her brain.” Cancer has been ruled out, but his daughter remains under care. The band canceled shows from Tuesday through this Sunday so far. The band’s fans have offered their support in the comments of the social media posts announcing the show cancellations.