Charlotte Perrelli was taken to emergency yesterday as the exhaustion from work and personal problems caught up with the popular Swedish singer. Charlotte has cancelled her concerts and decided to take a short time off to rest and recuperate.

After Belgrade, Charlotte Perrelli did not take a vacation but went about business as usual. Her family and colleagues have expressed their deep concern for the singer's condition as the exhaustion from all the work involved in this year's Eurovision Song Contest has caught up with her.

Charlotte was booked to appear in Storuman, together with Jan Johansen, winner of Melodifestivalen 1995, but she had to be rushed to hospital instead. Since she entered Melodifestivalen this year, Charlotte Perrelli has been working non stop, driving herself to the edge. She visited 17 countries, something that her manager, Stefan Jordansson, admits was "insane" and should not have happened : "It has been too much. Charlotte and her body could not take it anymore. It was enough. I have been following Charlotte for eleven years and have never seen her so sick. Never ever! We won the Eurovision Song Contest 1999 and not even during that time I saw her so sick. And everybody should know that we all were crawling on our knees back then. She's simply over-worked. She's burned out. It's too much. Now I realise we should say stop long time ago." he told Swedish Expressen.

Charlotte's recent breakup with her husband has no doubt also played a part in the singer's condition. The couple decided a few weeks ago to take some time off as they have been having problems lately. Now Charlotte is at home with her family, resting and waiting for the medical test results. Her management hopes that after that she will be able to be present at the opening of the musical Rhapsody in Rock on July 5 in Forsmark.

A very special thank you to Jarrod for his contribution to the article.