Overview
- In mid-July on ProSieben’s Born Famous, 20-year-old Summer Terenzi said she has a form of Tourette syndrome and described it as a feeling of intense pressure in her head that is relieved by motor tics.
- She told interviewers that stress makes her symptoms worse and that she once could not drive and relied on multiple medications during a severe phase of the condition.
- Summer said she is now in specialised therapy that uses breathing exercises to help manage tics and that she no longer wants others to speculate about her condition.
- Her mother, Sarah Connor, recalled that Summer was born with a heart defect and had heart surgery at six weeks, and said she has worried that public performance could aggravate Summer’s symptoms.
- Summer says she has no contact with her biological father Marc Terenzi despite his public apology acknowledging past failings, and she has released a song called “Daddy Issues” to process the relationship while she pursues a music career.