A British mom named Zoe Fennessy has crippling seizures whenever she hears the R'n'B singer's vocals.
- Nov 13, 2014
AceShowbiz - Ne-Yo's music can actually harm someone. U.K.'s Daily Mail reports that a British woman named Zoe Fennessy recently underwent a brain surgery in hopes to stop the crippling seizures triggered by the R&B star's music.
Fennessy had her first seizure in 2006 and was diagnosed with epilepsy in 2008. She had her first musical-induced seizure in 2011, when she listened to Pitbull and Ne-Yo's hit "Give Me Everything".
"It took me a while to realize that they were being triggered by his songs," she said. "It wasn't until I'd heard it for about the 15th time that it finally twigged what was going on." She told her doctors and was forced to be monitored by doctors while listening to Ne-Yo's songs.
To solve her problem, the 26-year-old mother underwent a six-hour surgery to remove part of her left temporal lobe last June. The symptoms of her epilepsy have reportedly reduced, but she still has seizures every time she hears the singer's vocals.
"I'll be walking around the supermarket doing my food shopping and I have to put my earphones in to listen to my own music just in case it comes on," Fennessy told Daily Mail. "It's the same with most shops. I have to walk in with my ear phones in at first just to make sure they don't have Ne-Yo on."
"If he ever releases a greatest hits album, it's going to be a nightmare," she added. "Whenever I hear the first few beats of the song, I have to drop whatever I am doing and run. I don't dislike Ne-Yo or his music. It just dislikes me unfortunately."
Fennessy, who hasn't been working for six months because of the seizures, admitted that she found her own condition funny. "People might think it is funny - and I can laugh at it myself - but it has taken over my life. It's ruined my life," she said.
