Engelbert Humperdinck opened up about the time he spent in a sanatorium in 1961.During a recent episode of his podcast, "The Engelbert Humperdinck Show," the 90-year-old British singer recalled his time at Leicester's Groby Road Hospital Sanatorium, after he was diagnosed with tuberculosis.When speaking about the treatments he endured, he described having "to stay on your back for I don't know 8 weeks," without attempting to sit up or "do anything strenuous," in addition to getting "an injection with a needle about this big in your butt" every morning."There was one lady nurse who was, I don't think she liked me very much because of the injection that she gave me, she really hurt, and I used to scream at her and I used to ask for somebody else.They wouldn't give me anybody else, but this lady was very bad, and she was really hurt, and I had big blue marks," he explained.Humperdinck rebelled against a nurse administering his injections during his time at a sanatorium.
(Steve Parsons-WPA Pool/Getty Images)ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK SAYS HE ‘WENT THROUGH HELL’ REJECTING 'CASTING COUCH' ADVANCES EARLY IN CAREERAfter she continued to hurt him with every injection, Humperdinck thought to himself, "When I'm a little better I'm going to do something" and be a bit "mischievous" to get back at her."I said to my friend in the next bed, I said, 'I've got to get some rope.I get some rope,'" he said.
"So we got this rope, and when the nurse came around in the morning before doctor's rounds, I got the nurse, grabbed her, tied her hands behind the back, put her in the empty bed next to us, covered her up."He said when the doctor came by for his rounds, "he knew that I was responsible for that..but he ignored it" and "just walked straight by."Once she was free from the bindings, the singer said he "was in trouble," but that he "never let her give me another injection."Humperdinck spent six months in a sanatorium in 1961, after being diagnosed with tuberculosis.(Disney General Ente...