Michael Bublé has shared how his young son’s cancer diagnosis changed his life.
The singer’s son Noah, now 10 and in remission, was just 3 years old when he was diagnosed with liver cancer in 2016.
Speaking on The Diary of a CEO podcast, Michael said: “My son’s cancer diagnosis rocked my world and pulled the curtain from over my eyes.”
“I don’t think that I had context and that was the sledgehammer to my reality. And I will never be carefree again in my life. And that’s OK. It is a privilege for me to exist.”
The crooner went on to confess he was going through a “crisis” before his son’s diagnosis.
“I don’t think I had my priorities straight,” he said. “Blinders, career, ambition. How do I become the baddest, biggest, best? You know? More ego, more power, more money, more.”
Recalling the moment he found out his son had cancer, Michael said: “In that moment. I went, ‘OK, this is life. This is it. This is what’s important.'”
The 48-year-old said he had no time to “process” his son’s diagnosis, before he remembered a promise he made to himself at the children’s hospital.
“I remember, I closed my eyes and saying to myself, ‘If we get out of this, I am living a different life. A better life,’” he said.
“I want to be kinder, I want to be more empathetic. I don’t ever want to allow that ego and false self to take over. I want to know how lucky I am.”
The Canadian singer and his wife Luisana Lopilato are also parents to son Elias, 7, daughter Vida, 5, and daughter Cielo, 1.
