- Muni Long’s lupus diagnosis led to a life-threatening health crisis during a trip that required a double lung transplant.
- Doctors gave her a week back, but Long decided to undergo the risky surgery to have more time with her son.
- After a successful transplant, Long’s new voice is even better than before, although she is still recovering vocal abilities.
Muni Long opens up about a terrifying time in her life that led to her undergoing a double lung transplant.
The singer revealed the details of her health journey this week Good morning Americawhich is when she revealed that she underwent a double lung transplant after bends early from Brandy and Monica’s The Boy Is Mine Tour.
Long, 37, opened up to co-anchor Robin Roberts about her health issues during the 2025 tour, admitting she was in no place to make the trip in the first place.
“I should never have done that tour. But there was so much going on in my life that I had to,” said the singer, who was diagnosed with lupus in 2014.
The Grammy winner went on to recall that she fell ill during the tour and contracted pneumonia, admitting that she barely made it to the final show.
“I was only able to do two songs,” she recalled of her last night on tour.
Long went home for Thanksgiving and “woke up in the hospital” where doctors told her she needed a double lung transplant.
“I knew for a really long time that something was wrong,” the singer explained. “Every day I’m like spitting in cups and coughing all the time. Trying to take all that medicine to get through the day. With this industry, you’re always in people’s faces. So I’m taking pictures and I’m huffing and puffing like I just ran a marathon.”
Although Long felt “so much better” after waking up in hospital, she was then informed of her prognosis by a team of doctors who told her she only had a week to live.
“My jaw dropped. Literally. I thought, ‘That’s rude.’ But they were kind of like, ‘This is not a joke. You have to make a choice. You can either go to hospice or you can get these lungs,” she recalled.
While Long was hesitant to undergo the surgery, she says her son inspired her decision.
“The ego and the vanity were like, ‘But what about my voice?’ What’s going to happen?” But then I look at my son and I think about how much more life I have to live. Quality of life was first. I can’t sing if I’m not here,” she said.
She underwent the operation about six months ago and is now doing “wonderfully”.
“Tomorrow is my last appointment for all the stuff,” she revealed. “No symptoms. Asymptomatic. No infections. None of that. Then I’m going to have my voice check, six months will be in August because I’m also going to have voice surgery.”
Long recently released a new single called “The Riches,” which she revealed was the last song she recorded before her health complications. Fortunately, she thinks her new voice is even better than her pre-transplant voice.
“My voice now is completely different. It’s actually better, should I say? But I don’t know if I can perform yet,” she said. “They gave me six months to a year.”
Muni Long announced its exit from The Boy Is Mine Tour on November 29, 2025. She wrote on social media at the time: “As many of you know, I have been battling some health issues throughout The Boy Is Mine Tour. Despite doing everything I can to push through, my doctors have made it clear that it is not safe for me to continue with the remaining dates of the tour.”
The following February, Long opened up to People about her experience with lupus, a chronic autoimmune disease.
“Please turn off the air when I enter the building. I’m not a diva, but literally if I get too cold I’ll start coughing and I won’t be able to sing,” she revealed. “And then when I get off the stage, I have to lie down immediately and wrap myself in the covers and steam my voice,” she said at the time.
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