The bite comes two years after a bat bit the singer when she was on stage opening for the rockers in Spain.

Taylor Momsen hospitalized after poisonous spider bites her on AC/DC tour

The bite comes two years after a bat bit the singer when she was on stage opening for the rockers in Spain.

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April 15, 2026 3:18 p.m. ET

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- Taylor Momsen has been hospitalized after suffering a poisonous spider bite.

- It happened while the Pretty Reckless frontwoman was opening for AC/DC on their *Power Up* tour.

- The bite comes two years after a bat bit her while she was touring with the rockers in Spain.

Bad luck seems to follow Taylor Momsen whenever she tours with AC/DC.

Almost two years after the Pretty Reckless frontwoman was bitten by a bat while on the road with the rockers, Momsen announced on Instagram that she'd been hospitalized after a poisonous spider bit her while she was opening for the band on their *Power Up* Tour in Latin America.

"Or I just spend the night in the hospital…" Momsen wrote, adding, "Thank you to the amazing doctors who, well, they know ❤️❤️❤️ 🕷️🕷️🕷️👎👎👎.”

Alongside her post, the "Heaven Knows" singer and former *Gossip Girl *star shared a snapshot of herself dressed in a hospital gown holding an ice pack to her head and a video of her being wheeled on a stretcher with her large bite circled in pen on her leg.

Momsen first revealed that she'd been bitten by a spider in an April 9 Instagram video. In it, a doctor treated a swollen wound on her leg and gave her an injection in her upper arm.

"So it wouldn’t be an AC/DC tour if I didn't get bit…” Momsen captioned the video. "This time a massive spider decided to take a chunk out of me, and its venom did a number on my system, so [I] had to have the wonderful doctors in Mexico come and deliver quite the shot before the show last night… add it to the list!"

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Momsen concluded her post by asking, "Spider woman? Batgirl? WTF."

In another update, Momsen confirmed that she was "doing fine" after the bite.

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However, in an April 15 update, she revealed that she'd spent the day at the hospital after the bite caused a large purple rash that covered the front of her shin.

"Hospital today, show tomorrow, poisonous spiders are NO BUENO," Momsen captioned her post. "But the show must go on. See you tomorrow, Mexico City!"

Momsen seems to have been hospitalized for the bite later that same evening. It is unclear if the Pretty Reckless will perform at Estadio GNP Seguros in Mexico City tonight given Momsen's hospitalization. The event marks the final date of the Latin America leg of AC/DC's tour. The Pretty Reckless are scheduled to hit the festival circuit in June before reuniting with AC/DC for the North American leg of the *Power Up* Tour in July.

The scary spider bite comes two years after a bat bit Momsen when she was on stage in Seville, Spain, while opening for AC/DC.

"He was cute, but yes, he bit me," she wrote of the bat in a since-deleted Instagram post, noting at the time that because of the bite, she'd have to receive rabies shots for the next two weeks.

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