Watch the heartbreaking moment Lewis Capaldi’s dad breaks down in tears after star has Tourette’s episode on stage
LEWIS Capaldi’s heartbroken dad breaks down in tears in his new Netflix documentary after the singer first experiences symptoms of Tourette’s on stage.
The Scottish star starts to suffer from uncontrollable tics while performing his song Fade at his first ever show in Wembley in 2020.
Lewis had been laying down new tracks for his sophomore album at the time, after shooting to fame with his debut record, Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent.
And the stress of trying to repeat its success caused his symptoms to spiral.
His condition had not yet been diagnosed, and Lewis’ dad Mark is seen frustrated and struggling to come to terms with what is happening.
Mark says of the moment Lewis asks the band to stop playing midway through his performance: “He f*****g stops singing.
“So I bolted, ran down the stairs. And the crowd has gone quiet.”
With tears in his eyes, Mark continues: “I’m shouting, ‘Go on!’
“And I’m breaking my heart. And he’s there, and it’s bad.”
Lewis also recalls his terror and what was running through his mind.
He says: “This twitch became out of control, and it was awful.
“It was absolutely horrific. I started to get in my head about these pressures about things.
“There’s skin in the game there, rather than just me singing my silly little songs.
“Other people are depending on me.”
The musician, from Whitburn, West Lothian, signed a seven-figure deal with Netflix after recording his own journey, from working on his hit debut album, to putting together follow-up Broken By Desire to Be Heavenly Sent, due out in May.
In more candid scenes, the star is seen trying balance his fame with his desire for normalcy, as his parents sell their family home, and he deals with the pressure to somehow eclipse his wildly successful first album amid his mental health issues.
His parents played a huge part in making the film and in it they speak about raising Lewis, and his late Aunt’s tragic death that inspired his mega hit Before You Go.
Lewis also warned viewers that the documentary wouldn’t be as positive as they might expect.
He said: “When I saw the first cut I thought it looked like a film where I die at the end.
“Luckily things turned around and, as far as I’m aware, I don’t die at the end of this.
“It’s pretty vulnerable. There’s a lot of things in the film that were beginning to be resolved that are now resolved.
“It was a wake up call seeing the first draft. I was approached about it in 2019.
“Things were going well, I hadn’t noticed a twitch affecting my life and my anxiety was under control.
“Someone You Loved had been big and the album had done well and I thought the documentary would be the coolest.
“I had these big shows booked for 2020 and I thought I’d look the business.
“Then Covid and all the rest of it happened and it became quite an intimate thing.”