Veteran rapper Missy Elliott has disclosed she postponed her tour schedules in the past to stay home with her elderly dog, Hoodie.
After five years, she is now starting her first tour. She told People Magazine that spending time with Hoodie was a priority for her.
She said, “I stayed home a lot because I didn’t want to go out on the road, and something happened. He was 17 and lived a long, happy life.”
Missy Elliott described Hoodie as an incredibly “pretty” pet and said that her much-pampered domestic friend “lived a very long time.”
It was only after Hoodie’s sad demise in November 2023 that she finally thought of shaking schedules up to go on tour again. And much of it was fellow rapper Ciara’s insistence, too.
“So I said, ‘Okay, now I can leave the house without having to worry about anything. Ciara and my dog played a big influence in me making the decision to go out,’ ” the artist confessed.
Before announcing her new concert expedition, Out of this World, she dedicated quite an emotional post to Hoodie on Instagram.
Informing followers about his death, Missy Elliott wrote, “Who would think a pet would turn into a family member? If I left the house for 5 minutes and came back, you made me feel like I had been gone for years.”
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