Kid Rock hospitalized for "dehydration"

**sharon_b** · June 14th, 2008, 12:47 PM

Kid Rock was rushed to the hospital minutes before he was to head on stage Friday at a music festival in England, according to British press reports.

Organizers of the Download Festival said the rocker, 37, had been hospitalized in Nottingham, which is 99 miles north of London. He was suffering from stomach cramps and dehydration, his spokesman told the music magazine NME.

Rock had been due on the festival's main stage around 3.30 p.m. Friday, but an announcement came over the public-address system a few minutes before saying Rock was unwell.

He had reportedly attended a late-night event at Central London's Whisky Mist nightclub that had continued into the early hours of June 13.

The performer had stirred controversy in the U.K. earlier in the week after telling a black interviewer that he thought the confederate flag was "cool".

Rock also revealed he's patched up his feud with Tommy Lee after punching the Mötley Crüe drummer at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2007. "We're friends," he told The Guardian. "We don't talk all the time but everything's good."

And what about his relationship with his former wife of four months, Pamela Anderson (who is reportedly back together with Lee)? "If I see her, I say hello, but I kind of don't want to be on that scene." Rock says. "I touched the stove, it's f------ hot, I don't want to touch it any more."

Kid Rock Hospitalized for Dehydration - Kid Rock, Pamela Anderson, Tommy Lee : People.com

**celeb_2006** · June 14th, 2008, 02:02 PM

Dehydration the new black

**Trixie** · June 14th, 2008, 02:54 PM

Maybe he ate some bad tomatoes.

**Beeyotch** · June 14th, 2008, 06:41 PM

OD or alcohol poisoning?

**cheray** · June 14th, 2008, 08:01 PM

Massive amounts of drugs and a bottle of whatever must cause dehydration. Or a broken heart.

**LaFolie** · June 14th, 2008, 08:31 PM

Do those celebs never drink or what?

**msdeb** · June 14th, 2008, 08:51 PM

excessive vomiting from a hangover is my diagnosis

**sweetness** · June 14th, 2008, 11:14 PM

"He was suffering from stomach cramps and dehydration..."

It's not out of the question. The same thing happened to me (worst stomach pain I've ever had) last weekend and I had to go to the ER to get fluids. And I haven't drank alcohol in nearly 7 months.

**MillionDollarBaby** · June 15th, 2008, 12:02 AM

pammy really did a number on him!!

**potato_chips** · June 15th, 2008, 04:16 AM

He looks like a monk seal.

**LynnieD** · June 15th, 2008, 09:55 AM

He had reportedly attended a late-night event at Central London's Whisky Mist nightclub that had continued into the early hours of June 13.

And there you have it. They practically come out and say he was fucking trashed.

**MrsDark** · June 15th, 2008, 10:17 AM

Too much alcohol could be enough to do this.

**CherryDarling** · June 15th, 2008, 01:00 PM

Somebody had tee many martoonies.

**Novice** · June 15th, 2008, 01:22 PM

1 London is further than 99 miles from Nottingham....
2 Caused so much controversity that I didn't even know he was in the country & I'd have driven to Nottingham to see him had I known....

Wonder if he had a dodgy kebab too?

**Lalique** · June 15th, 2008, 02:03 PM

"The performer had stirred controversy in the U.K. earlier in the week after telling a black interviewer that he thought the confederate flag was "cool"."

WTF? Now I'm not from the south but I think it's despicable to say such a disgusting reminder of racism is "cool". I used to kind of like KR but now I'm getting really sick of him.