A woman suffering from epileptic seizures recently underwent brain surgery to cure her chronic illness. Scary enough as that is, she was diagnosed with musicogenic seizures, triggered by Ne-Yo's voice. Yes, you read that right.
Zoe Fennessy, a 26 year old from Retford, Nottinghamshire, says she first experienced a seizure on New Year's Day in 2006, which doctors chalked up as a possible reaction to fatigue and stress. However, the seizures persisted, increasing to up to six per day by 2008. Then, in May of 2011, Fennessy had her first music-induced seizure after listening to Ne-Yo and Pitbull's "Give Me Everything."
After having the same reaction over and over again, Zoe finally approached her doctor about the possibility of Ne-Yo's voice being the reason for her seizures. "The song was really popular and I went to my consultant and I said, 'I know this sounds extremely bizarre, but every time I hear this song I have a seizure,'" she tells SWNS.
Along with confirming Fennessy's reaction when hearing Ne-Yo's voice, doctors at Sheffield’s Royal Hallamshire Hospital also discovered that the seizures took place on the right side of her brain, while the epilepsy took place on the left side. Fennessy underwent brain surgery this June to remove part of her left frontal lobe, but her symptons still persist when a Ne-Yo comes on. “[Doctors] are saying it could possibly be something in the tone of his voice," she says. "Something like that, but it doesn’t happen when I hear Usher, or people like him who have a very similar sound. It is only him, only Ne-Yo.”
"I don’t dislike Ne-Yo or his music, it just dislikes me unfortunately," she adds. "I’ll be walking around the supermarket doing my food shopping and I have to put my earphones in to listen to my own music just in case it comes on."
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[via SWNS]
