In May 2024, Taylor Momsen and her band The Pretty Reckless were on tour with AC/DC when, at a stop in Sevilla, Spain, a random bat bit Taylor’s leg. No joke, she was in the middle of performing a song called “Witches Burn.” Two years later, the bands are still rocking together on AC/DC’s PWR Up Tour… and Taylor just got bit by a poisonous spider. To quote Taylor herself, WTF?!! Unlike the bat, this spider was too discreet to do the deed onstage, preferring the comparatively intimate setting of backstage at a concert. This happened last week, as Taylor shared on her Instagram in a video showing the team of doctors tending to the bite and giving her what seemed to be an uncomfortably long shot. A few days after that, though, a rash stemming from the bite bloomed up her leg, and she had to go to the hospital:
Taylor Momsen is twice bitten, but still not shy.
Amid traveling with AC/DC for the Power Up tour, the Gossip Girl alum was hospitalized for a poisonous spider bite almost exactly two years after she was bitten by a bat mid-concert.
“Hospital today, show tomorrow,” Taylor wrote in an April 14 Instagram post, alongside a look at the gnarly bite, that was accompanied with a rash that went up her calf. “Poisonous spiders are NO BUENO but the show must go on, see you tomorrow Mexico City!”
And when one fan pointed out Taylor’s prior bat bite, she chimed back, “I know. WTF.”
The initial bite occurred nearly a week ago, and Taylor noted that a “massive spider” decided to “take a chunk out of” her leg. And while the 32-year-old said the spider’s venom “did a number” on her system, she maintained good spirits otherwise.
“It wouldn’t be an AC/DC tour if I didn’t get bit,” she joked in an April 9 post. “Add it to the list! Spider woman? Batgirl?”
Indeed, it was nearly two years ago when The Pretty Reckless singer was accosted by a bat while performing on stage in Spain.
“There’s a f–king flying bat on my leg right now,” Taylor said into the microphone in videos taken from the May 2024 concert. “Can someone help me please?”
Once the bat was removed from her leg, though, she was able to continue with the show.
“Gracias!” Taylor told the stage hand who helped her remove the animal. “It’s alright. And the bat’s fine. He’s gonna be my new friend.”
Unfortunately, the bat wasn’t totally friendly.
“He was cute, but yes he bit me,” Taylor wrote in a follow up since-deleted Instagram post, “so rabies shots for the next two weeks.”
Despite the medical setback, Taylor assured she felt the bite was a total “ROCK AND ROLL MOMENT” and even earned a new nickname for the ordeal.
“Thanks to all the staff at the hospital who dubbed me #batgirl after seeing it on the local news that morning,” she continued. “That’s one for the books!!!!”
While Taylor originally said, “Hospital today, show tomorrow,” she later amended that in a follow up post that said, “Or I just spend the night in the hospital…” Yikes, Taylor! She keeps posting about the ordeal — with remarkably good humor! — so you can obviously see how much worse the rash got, and why she had to spend the night at the hospital. Instead of the typical splotchiness of a rash, by nighttime it was a solid red, swollen blob roughly the size of a small country, and the doctors had outlined the area with marker (which I know from watching The Pitt means it was serious). But Taylor is a trooper, and the overnight stay at the hospital ensured that the show could go on the next day. I really hope the worst is over for her.
Given Taylor’s wry captions to her posts, I don’t think she’d be offended by my marveling that the two most goth of all animals were somehow intrinsically attracted to her. It’s like they just knew, SHE’S THE ONE TO BITE! Is it like the way mosquitos go after certain people? (Hi, it’s me, I’m mosquitos’ people.) Oh, and speaking of goth, Taylor rocks the heavy black eye makeup so well, but one of her hospital pics is of her bare-faced and oh my word — her eyes are stunning au natural!
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- The Pretty Reckless, singer Taylor Momsen, in concert live at the Olympiastadion, Berlin, 3-6-25
Photos credit: Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/Avalon, Faye Sadou/Avalon, IMAGO/Avalon
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