Fiona Apple has cancelled the next leg of her current tour.  Why?  She'll be staying at home to tend to her dying dog...

Fiona released a 4 page handwritten letter explaining the cancellation of her tour, here are some excerpts from that letter.

"It's 6pm on Friday, and I'm writing to a few thousand friends I have not met yet.
 I am writing to ask them to change our plans and meet a little while later."


"Here's the thing.

I have a dog Janet, and she's been ill for almost two years now, as a tumor has been idling in her chest, growing ever so slowly. She's almost 14 years old now. I got her when she was 4 months old. I was 21 then, an adult officially - and she was my child."


"She's my best friend and my mother and my daughter, my benefactor, and she's the one who taught me what love is. I can't come to South America. Not now."

Excerpts: Hollywood Reporter

Image: fiona-apple.com