2025 Rising Star Lola Young Exits Stage Due to Illness During Coachella Performance

Lola Young was trying her hardest not to be sick during her Coachella set (Picture: TikTok/Lola Young)
Lola Young was forced to run off stage gagging and feeling like she was going to vomit while performing at Coachella.
The singer, 24, gained fame after her song Messy went viral on TikTok, marking her first entry into the UK top 40.
Before that, she covered Together in Electric Dreams for the 2021 John Lewis Christmas advert.
Lola is among the acts performing at this year’s Coachella alongside renowned artists such as Lady Gaga, Post Malone, Travis Scott, and Green Day.
However, the nerves of performing in front of thousands of people got to the artist as she shared a video of herself retching while onstage.
In a compilation video of her set on TikTok, Lola can be seen singing and dancing in khaki green trousers and a matching bralet top, stopping at various points to gag before requesting a bucket.
‘Not me doing my first Coachella & gagging & throwing up all the way through the set,’ she wrote on the first clip, adding: ‘It was getting real bad here guys.’
After asking someone backstage, ‘Can I have a bucket please?’, Lola resumed twerking onstage to the delight of her cheering fans.
‘That wouldn’t have been cute if I threw up,’ she told the crowd after dancing, admitting in the captions that she was ‘trying to hang in there with all her power.’
She also joked, ‘If ur coming today maybe it’ll be messier,’ in reference to her second set of the weekend at the California event.
Additionally, she wrote: ‘I was nervous guys and it was 40 bloody degrees. I’m back today, same time, same tent love ya x.’

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The star shared a video of herself performing at the California festival for the first time on her TikTok page (Picture: TikTok/Lola Young)

In it, she shared a compilation of clips of her almost throwing up and gagging through her performance (Picture: TikTok/Lola Young).
Many of the Wish You Were Dead singer’s fans praised her for being open and honest about her nerves, saying she ‘absolutely smashed it’ regardless.
‘So proud of you Lola!! Absolutely smashed it! In that heat as well?? Icon,’ Matt Johnson wrote on TikTok.
Cici commented: ‘Love it. No hiding, no faking it, and no perfection. It just is what it is, and she did a damn good job .’
KitNetic said: ‘No one can EVER question your dedication to your music/fans.
‘Listen, Lola. You have something SO rare and sought after. You are a light. Keep shining, babe.’

Fans praised the artist for her honesty about the nerves she experienced getting onstage (Picture: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)
Meanwhile, Alli added: ‘So professional you weren’t feeling good and you kept coming back with the good energy. Any other big singer would have probably left the stage completely. Good job, girl love you Lola .’

Lola’s career began when she joined the Brit School and won a national open mic competition at age 13.
Despite claims of ‘nepotism’ as her aunt is the renowned children’s author Julia Donaldson, Lola has worked tirelessly, releasing music and creating content on TikTok to rise through the UK music charts.
After Coachella, Lola is scheduled to perform at Radio 1’s Big Weekend at Sefton Park in Liverpool on Sunday, May 25, alongside Mumford & Sons and JADE.
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