Raise Your Glass, Kiwis She's Tickled Pink

The Diva’s Singing Our Praises.

Not quite halfway into her 14-month Beautiful Trauma World Tour, Pink hit a wall. Rushed to hospital with excruciating pain in Sydney, the singer was diagnosed with a gastric virus and forced to postpone three concerts.

To make matters worse, her young daughter Willow was running a fever, and her one-year-old son Jameson came down with hand, foot and mouth disease. It was a heartbreaking time for the star, who suffers terribly from “mom guilt”, confessing, “Going on tour with children is really tricky. It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done.”

But the sickness had passed when Pink, her husband Carey Hart and their kids arrived for her seven shows in Aotearoa, a decade after her last visit.

“It’s been way too long since I have been here – we’re having so much fun,” she told Dunedin concert-goers, adding on Instagram, “New Zealand is full of nice people.”

While enjoying a low-key lunch with Willow, seven, in Otago café The Standard Kitchen, the chatty star told owner Tom Macaulay, “I’m as happy as a clam – and clams are always smiling!”

As well she might be with the “What About Us” singer set to celebrate her 39th birthday in Auckland alongside our third female Prime Minister, fellow hard-working mum Jacinda Ardern, 38, as Woman’s Day went to press.