Jessie J is opening up about her breast cancer diagnosis and restoration, sharing an replace with followers as she recovers from surgical procedure and awaits additional outcomes.
In a new post shared June 24, Jessie (born Jessica Cornish) mirrored on the highs and lows of the final 48 hours following her operation. “Blood warning!! This publish is a number of the trustworthy lows and highs… I’ll all the time present the great and laborious bits of any journey I’m going via,” she wrote, alongside photographs and a brief video from her hospital mattress. “Grateful to my physician / surgeon and all of the nurses who cared for me and all my household / buddies who came visiting.”
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She added that she is now residence to relaxation and awaiting outcomes. “Nonetheless hugging everybody going via one thing robust proper now. All of us acquired this!”
The British singer carried out what she described as her remaining present earlier than surgical procedure at Capital’s Summertime Ball earlier this month, telling the group of 75,000 at Wembley Stadium, “At the moment, this present is my final present earlier than I’m going to beat breast most cancers!… It’s probably the most particular factor and I’m so grateful for this life, for you guys, for my profession, for my son. My associate. My mother and father.”
The pop star revealed her prognosis earlier this month in a June 3 Instagram publish, telling followers that the information got here simply earlier than the discharge of her April single, “No Secrets and techniques.” “I’m highlighting the phrase ‘early,’” she wrote on the time. “Most cancers sucks in any type however I’m holding on to the phrase ‘early.’”
Since her prognosis, Jessie has been candid concerning the emotional course of, sharing that she’s been “out and in of exams” and selected to go public together with her story not solely to course of her actuality but additionally to be a supply of power for others. “I additionally know the way a lot sharing prior to now has helped me with different individuals giving me their love and help, and likewise their very own tales,” she mentioned. “I’m an open guide. It breaks my coronary heart that so many individuals are going via a lot – comparable and worse.”
In a single lighthearted second, she joked, “I’m getting to maintain my nipples, that’s good,” she continued. “It’s a bizarre subject and a bizarre scenario. And I do know the press are going to say loopy stuff however you recognize what, to get identified with this as I’m placing out a music known as ‘No Secrets and techniques’ proper earlier than a music known as ‘Residing My Greatest Life,’ which was all pre-planned earlier than I came upon about this, I imply, you may’t make it up.”
Jessie has lengthy been open about her well being. In 2020, she revealed a prognosis of Ménière’s illness, and within the years since has additionally shared her expertise with miscarriage, OCD, and ADHD. She welcomed her son, Sky, in 2023.