Avicii Shares Unsettling Footage From True Stories Documentary – Watch

Avicii has taken to social media to share a new clip of his upcoming documentary, Avicii: True Stories.

The unsettling video shows the Swedish DJ visiting a hospital telling him the unwelcoming news about taking it easy even in the midst of a world-wide tour.

The short video teaser shows the hectic touring lifestyle along with getting interview requests while struggling with his own personal health. Avicii revealed that the Documentary “is kind of gritty sometimes. It’s very personal. There’s a lot of ups and downs.”

Make sure to catch Avicii‘s True Stories which is available in select cinemas and will be available on Netflix “in the near future.”

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Avicii, born Tim Bergling, retired from touring back in 2016, citing the physical and mental toll that years of nonstop shows had taken on him. True Stories is billed as an unfiltered look at that period of his career, tracing the pressures that led him to step back from the road at the height of his fame. This particular clip is one of the more raw moments shared publicly so far, showing him in a hospital setting and being told directly to slow down, a stark contrast to the polished highlight reels most artists share when promoting a new project.

What makes the documentary stand out from typical music-industry profiles is that it isn’t shying away from the harder parts of the story. Rather than framing his hiatus purely as a triumphant comeback narrative, the footage leans into just how difficult that stretch of his career actually was. Avicii’s own description of the film as “gritty” and full of “ups and downs” suggests he had real input into how honestly this chapter of his life would be portrayed, rather than the film being a sanitized retrospective.

For fans who have followed Avicii’s career since his early breakout hits, this kind of transparency is a meaningful shift. Dance music has historically not been great about publicly discussing the toll that touring and industry pressure can take on artists, and a mainstream documentary willing to show a global superstar in a hospital bed talking about his health is a rare thing to see. Keep an eye out for True Stories in theaters near you, and for its eventual arrival on Netflix.