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Lionel Richie Checks Into Hospital Six Days After Dolly

Zev Shalev · Narativ with Zev Shalev

Sep 1, 2026 · 1 min listen · Last updated September 1, 2026

Lionel Richie checked himself into a St. Louis hospital six days after Dolly Parton died. Richie, 77, had just closed his Saturday night show at The Muny, the outdoor stage in St. Louis's Forest Park. People in the audience watched him lean on the piano late in the set.

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Lionel Richie checked himself into a St. Louis hospital six days after Dolly Parton died.

Richie, 77, had just closed his Saturday night show at The Muny, the outdoor stage in St. Louis's Forest Park. People in the audience watched him lean on the piano late in the set. He asked for a chair before the final song, sat down, and sang "All Night Long" to the end.

Two days later, a source close to Richie called the hospital visit "an abundance of caution" and said doctors were checking him for mild dehydration. TMZ carried the story first on Monday afternoon, and roughly ten outlets — ABC, CBS, Fox and E! among them — matched it within hours. Every outlet leans on the same unnamed sources; Richie's family and his representatives have said nothing on the record. Until they speak, "an abundance of caution" is the whole official record. A source told Rolling Stone that Richie was doing "OK" and hoped to go home Tuesday. By late Tuesday morning, nobody had announced a discharge.

Richie got dizzy onstage in Minnesota on June 24 and told the crowd so — the first health stop of his 2026 tour. St. Louis is the second. He plays San Francisco on September 26, and nobody has canceled anything. That gives him twenty-five days to rest.

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