**French rock star Johnny Hallyday has been released from a Los Angeles hospital after emergency surgery.**Hallyday, 66, was treated at Cedars Sinai hospital for an infection allegedly received during an operation for a slipped disc in Paris.
Doctors at one stage put him in a coma in order to conduct two operations. He will now continue treatment at home.
Hallyday, who has been active since the 1960s, has a passionate following in the French-speaking world.
He is expected to spend Christmas with wife Laeticia and his two daughters in Los Angeles.
Hallyday has had a series of health problems since treatment for cancer of the colon this year, and was operated on in Paris for a back injury suffered during his latest farewell tour.
Controversy flared up over the operation, performed by surgeon Stephane Delajoux.
Hallyday has begun legal action against the surgeon.
However, the surgeon’s lawyers insist there was “absolutely no negligence” during the operation.
Earlier this week Mr Hallyday submitted a letter to French judges claiming he had come “close to death”.