John Waters was hospitalized over the weekend after suffering a possible mini-stroke – the Irish John Waters that is.
According to a report on social media, the Irish John Waters went to the hospital after he started losing vision in one eye and was admitted for treatment and observation.
The Irish John Waters is a far-right newspaper columnist, author and social commentator who gained widespread attention for his rants against compulsory mask-wearing at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 1996, this John Waters had a daughter named Roisin with the late singer Sinead O’Connor, who famously tore up a photo of then-Pope John Paul II on “Saturday Night Live” in 1992. They never married.
The Irish writer is one of several John Waterses around the world who make news and appear on Google Alerts from time to time. There’s a John Waters who’s an actor and musician in Australia; a Dr. John Waters who’s a pastor in Georgia; a John Waters who’s an architectural historian in Illinois; and even another Baltimore-based John Waters who was a window washer at the Charles Theatre for many years.
Word about the hospitalization of Ireland’s John Waters seems to have alarmed some fans of Baltimor...