Taylor Momsen rushed to hospital after being bitten by venomous spider

Taylor Momsen has shown off her grim injury after a spider ‘took a chunk’ out of her leg while on tour with AC/DC.

The bite comes almost two years after she was bitten by a bat, also on the leg, while on stage with her band, The Pretty Reckless.

While last time she joked she was ‘really a witch’ as the bat hung from her skirt, Taylor appeared a little less enthusiastic about the spider bite as she headed to hospital.

The 32-year-old singer showed off her leg, which was covered from ankle to knee in a red, swollen patch, radiating from the massive, inflamed bite.

Sharing a video on Instagram, she wrote: ‘So it wouldn’t be an AC/DC tour if I didn’t get bit…this time a massive spider decided to take a chunk out of me and its venom did a number on my system so had to have the wonderful doctors in Mexico come and deliver quite the shot before the show last night…add it to the list! Spider woman? Batgirl?’

However, the shot didn’t appear to have helped, as she ended up in the emergency room after the bite reaction got worse.

‘Hospital today, show tomorrow, poisonous spiders are NO BUENO but the show must go on, see you tomorrow Mexico City!’ she shared on Tuesday.

Her nonchalant approach got worse as just 12 hours later she confirmed she had ‘spent the night’ under the doctor’s supervision.

‘Thank you to the amazing doctors who, well, they know,’ Taylor wrote on her story, posting snaps with an ice pack on her head and of her still inflamed leg.

The Gossip Girl star has not posted any updates since, instead sharing promotional posts about their latest release.

While performing on the AC/DC tour in Spain in May 2024, she ended up having rabies shots after a bat decided to have a taste.

‘There’s a flying bat on my leg right now. Could someone help me please?’ she announced on stage after fans frantically pointed it out to her.

‘I must really be a witch’ joked Taylor, staying remarkably calm after letting out a little ‘eeep’ while stagehands came to save her.

She stood still as they tried to scare the bat away, with it eventually flying off and the Grinch icon telling the audience it was all okay.

However, in the ‘rock and roll moment’ she missed that the animal had actually bitten her thigh, leaving some marks behind.

‘‘In the moment I was performing and had no idea until the incredible crowd kept screaming and pointing…he was cute, but yes he bit me…so rabies shots for the next two weeks 😖😖😖,’ Taylor wrote on Instagram after.

The Pretty Reckless have been touring as the support for AC/DC for several years, having originally formed in 2009.

Breakthrough hits like Make Me Wanna Die and Heaven Knows made them staples of the 2010’s rock scene as she transitioned away from her actor image.

At just six years old, she starred as Cindy Lou Who in the 2000 Jim Carrey film How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

Taylor also appeared in other children’s films, including Spy Kids 2, Underdog and Hansel and Gretel and made a name for herself as a child star.

Then as a teenager in 2007, Taylor went on to play Jenny Humphrey or ‘Little J’ in Gossip Girl, in which she had a complete transformation from squeaky clean teen to emo rock chic.

Speaking to her on-screen brother Penn Badgley on the Podcrushed podcast in 2023, the singer revealed that she was made fun of as a child for her role.

‘First of all, The Grinch changed my life in a multitude of ways – one of them being I was made fun of relentlessly.

‘Every time I would start a new school or go somewhere else, I don’t even think the kids knew my name. I was just “Grinch Girl”. Not even the character name, just “Grinch Girl”. I got used to it, but it was alienating.’

Taylor recently embraced her younger self by releasing a version of Where Are You Christmas, her song from The Grinch.

Last year, she also reunited with co-star Jim Carrey for the first time in 25 years when they both attended the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony.

On the red carpet, the And So It Went singer told People of her favourite memories of working with Jim.

‘I just love that he was very protective of me. He was always very kind. And just the entire experience of filming Grinch and getting to know him so well, even in all the makeup, was just wonderful,’ she said.

‘As a young person watching an artist at work and taking their craft so seriously, that left a really powerful, lasting impact on me as an adult now,’ Taylor added. ‘And I’m excited to be able to tell him that as a grownup.’

She no longer acts, instead touring the world with her Pretty Reckless bandmates: guitarist Ben Phillips, bassist Mark Damon, and Jamie Perkins on drums.

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