Taylor Momsen says a venomous spider bit her while she was touring in Mexico City, sending the 32-year-old singer to the hospital even as she pushed ahead with the AC/DC run. She told fans on Instagram on April 14 that it was “Hospital today, show tomorrow, poisonous spiders are NO BUENO,” then added, “but the show must go on, see you tomorrow Mexico City!”
On Wednesday, Momsen said she had spent the night in the hospital and thanked doctors in Mexico, writing, “Or I just spend the night in the hospital…thank you to the amazing doctors who, well, they know.” The update sharpened what she had first told followers about a week earlier: “So it wouldn’t be an AC/DC tour if I didn’t get bit…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!”
The bite happened while Momsen was on the AC/DC tour, and her posts suggest she was treated quickly enough to keep performing. That detail fits a pattern for the singer, who previously turned another onstage scare into a viral moment in 2024, when she told a crowd in Spain, “There’s a f---ing flying bat on my leg right now,” before later saying the bat had actually bitten her. Momsen, an actress-turned-singer and the frontwoman of The Pretty Reckless, has made a habit of keeping the show moving through things that would stop most performers cold.
What matters now is that Momsen says she is back on her feet after the hospital trip and expected to be back onstage in Mexico City. For fans, the question was never whether she could turn the episode into a story. It was whether the tour would lose a singer who appears determined not to let it.
