LeAnn Rimes Ill

By Stephen M. Silverman

11/03/1997 at 12:00 AM EST

Grammy-winning country singer, LeAnn Rimes, 18, has reportedly been diagnosed with the Epstein-Barr virus, after having suffered with health problems for the past few months. "It runs you down, you get fatigued," Rimes, discussing the virus, told entertainment columnists Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith. "It turns out, I was working through the main part of it, when I should have been in bed."