Garbage front woman Shirley Manson undergoes mysterious surgery

Garbage frontwoman Shirley Manson has undergone mysterious 'major surgery' as she shared a snap from her hospital bed. 

The rockstar, 58, gave no details about the procedure but declared 'She's alive' while sitting up with heart monitors attached to her chest. 

Despite the stressful situation she beamed and flashed the peace sign looking youthful beyond her years with her once iconic red hair tied back. 

Later returning home she posed alongside her pet pooch and wrote: 'I’m choosing to remind myself, as I lie here trying to recover from major surgery, that there are still beautiful things in the world'. 

'Animals, flowers, oceans, trees. I’m so grateful to all the people who have gone out of their way to love on me, take care of me, check in on me. I cling on to their kindness and their thoughtfulness and their care. Mostly I have spent the week in bed. Mostly I have been doomscrolling'.

MailOnline have contacted Shirley's reps for comment.  

The group comprises Shirley on vocals, Duke Erikson on guitar, bass, and keyboards, Steve Marker on guitar and keyboards and, finally, Butch Vig on drums and production.

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Shirley Manson, 51, of rock band Garbage talks for first time about her history of self-harm and depression

The band famously cut short their Bleed Like Me tour in 2005 and announced an indefinite break to pursue separate interests.

In 2007 they regrouped to record new hits and released their seventh studio album, No Gods No Masters, in 2021.

In 2008, Shirley played a liquid metal T-1001 Terminator named Catherine Weaver in season two of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. 

The year before, Shirley's mother was diagnosed with Pick’s disease, an aggressive form of dementia and she rescued a dog called Veela.

She told the Guardian: 'Veela sensed [my mother's illness]. She kept close to my mother, squeezing up next to her on the couch, in the car, in the garden. I treasure a slew of photographs from this time with the two of them intertwined.'

She said: 'When my mother died, less than 12 months later, it was Veela who spoke directly and most effectively to the pain I was experiencing. Around that time, I was filming a sci-fi television show in which I played an almighty and powerful Terminator who experienced no human emotions. 

'In real life, I was struggling to process my mother’s death but whenever I came home from work there would be Veela, dancing on her hind legs, demanding to be walked, to be fed, to be cuddled, to be engaged with. Slowly, I began to heal.'

Garbage are still together and released their career-spanning Anthology album in October 2022.

Shirley, born to her singer mother Muriel and university lecturer John, was married to artist Eddie Farrell from 1996 to 2003. 

She then married sound engineer Billy Bush in a Los Angeles courthouse in May 2010 and still live together there.

Shirley was asked by Another magazine in 2022 what she learned from recording a Bond theme and she said: 'The bigger you get, the harder you fall, and the crueler the critics become!'

She was also asked: 'What would your parents like you to have done for a living?'

And she responded: 'After I played our last album to my father, who’s 85, there was a pause and he said: “Don’t you think you should have gone to university?“

'Honestly, my eyes were rolling out the back of my head. My father was a university professor and though he’s very proud of me, I think he’s disappointed that I chose to forsake my intelligence for rock and roll.'