UPDATE: On Wednesday (April 22), Taylor Momsen shared on update on Instagram, confirming that the spider that bit her on tour last week was a brown recluse. “NYC … So happy to be home for a minute…need a good book while my leg continues to heal…a week or two and I should be fine,” Momsen said in the caption of a photo taken outside New York’s Strand Bookstore. “Thanks to everyone for your concerns. Brown Recluse bites are no joke.”
PREVIOUSLY (April 15): Taylor Momsen knows the show must go on, even when dangerous spider venom is wreaking havoc on your body. The Pretty Reckless singer and Gossip Girl alum gave fans a health update on Tuesday (April 14) in the wake of the nasty arachnid bite she recently suffered while on tour opening for AC/DC in South America.
“Hospital today, show tomorrow,” Momsen, 32, wrote in an Instagram post in which she included a selfie showing off her mottled right leg and a close-up of the aftermath of the nip from an unspecified creature, which left her with angry red splotches up and down her shin and a nasty-looking bite mark just above her ankle.
“But the show must go on, see you tomorrow Mexico City!” she added along with three Mexican flag emoji and a pair of lightning bolts. The singer followed up on Wednesday morning (April 15) with a pair of hospital snaps in which she looked worse for the wear, after having to stay overnight for treatment. “Or I spend the night in the hospital,” she wrote alongside a picture of her wearing a black surgical mask and a white hospital gown while laying on a gurney and holding a bag of ice to her forehead. “Thank you to the amazing doctors who, well, they know [three heart emoji].” She signed off with three spider and three thumbs down emoji.
In an accompanying video, Momsen filmed herself being rolled through the unnamed hospital’s corridors with surgical booties on her feet and her rashy leg outlined in blue surgical marker.
The seeming turn for the worse came after Momsen said she was doing “f–king fine” in a backstage video before her band’s opening slot for AC/DC at Estadio GNP Seguros stadium in Mexico City on Saturday (April 11), laughing at the nod to lyrics from the recent Pretty Reckless single “When I Wake Up”.
“When I wake up … with a spider in the bed,” she said with a smile in a video to a post titled “AC/DC TONIGHT! I’M DOING FINE!” She followed up with a clip of the band on stage at the weekend show, writing, “MEXICO CITY NIGHT 2 Can’t wait for Wednesday!“
The bite that landed Momsen in the hospital took place more than a week ago, with the singer keeping up her graveyard humor at the time, writing, “When do my superpowers kick in? That’s what I want to know,” alongside an image of a doctor cleaning the wound while another member of the medical team gave her a shot in her left arm. To date, Momsen has not shared what kind of spider bit her.
In the caption to that post, Momsen noted that this isn’t her first time getting bitten whole on tour with AC/DC. “🕷️🕷️🕷️ So it wouldn’t be an AC/DC tour if I didn’t get bit,” she wrote. “This time a massive spider decided to take a chunk out of me and its venom did a number on my system so had to have the wonderful doctors in Mexico come and deliver quite the shot before the show last night…add it to the list!”
Momsen and Pretty Reckless last toured with the Australian hard rock legends in 2024, when she was bitten by a bat while on the road in Spain during a performance of “Witches Burn” from her band’s 2021 Death By Rock and Roll album. In a clip from the time, a bat landed on the singer’s thigh and she didn’t notice it at first. But after spotting some fans pointing at her she looked down and said, “There’s a f–king flying bat on my leg right now … I must really be a witch!”
A crew member removed the bat, but not before it had already bitten Momsen, which sent her to a hospital for treatment and two weeks of follow-up rabies shots.
While she had a good attitude about both bites — writing “Spider woman? Batgirl? 🕷️🕷️🕷️🦇🦇🦇 WTF 😬” last week — a spokesperson for the band had not returned Billboard‘s request for comment at press time on whether Momsen’s hospitalization would impact the band’s planned opening slot for AC/DC at Estadio GNP Seguros in Mexico City on Wednesday night.
After tonight’s gig, Pretty Reckless will take some time off before launching a European swing beginning with a June 5 show at the Rock Im Park festival in Nuremberg, Germany, then teaming up with AC/DC again in Charlotte, N.C. on July 11 for a North American summer stadium run in-between their own club shows.
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