Joss Stone has loads to be grateful for this vacation season.
The Grammy-winning singer is “grateful” to be alive after surviving a harrowing childbirth that almost took the lives of each mom and youngster.
Stone and her boyfriend Cody DaLuz welcomed their bouncing child boy, Shackleton Stoker, in October — but it surely didn’t develop into fairly the joyous event they’d hoped for.
“You know, it’s nice to be alive,” she instructed ET throughout an interview printed Tuesday. “It really is. I’m very, very grateful for it.”
Stone and DaLuz shared the harrowing particulars of her 32-hour labour and emergency C-section once they introduced the Oct 18 start of their new child on social media.
“It was because my uterus was split,” she defined in an Instagram video thanking the 15 docs at Vanderbilt Birth Center in Nashville, Tennessee, who assisted in her care.
“I’m very grateful because I thought I was going to have to be a single dad,” stated the singer’s co-parent. “For about 20 minutes, I thought I was going to be on my own with a couple of kids.”
“So it got pretty scary, but thank God for them,” DaLuz continued. “They brought them back to me … Everyone is happy and healthy.”
The couple additionally shares one-year-old daughter Violet.
The 35-year-old British vocal powerhouse lately launched her first vacation album, Merry Christmas, Love. – New York Daily News/Tribune News Service