Veteran singer and poet Patti Smith has reassured fans that she is "fine” after collapsing during a presentation in Brazil and later returning to apologize to the audience for ending her show early.

Patti Smith says she is “absolutely fine” after “grossly exaggerated” reports that she collapsed onstage at a show in São Paulo, Brazil. The New York punk rock pioneer and singer-songwriter, a Chicago native who grew up in Deptford,