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Michael Bublé Reveals Self-Promising Message Amidst His Son’s Cancer Fight
Michael Bublé’s son and his cancer diagnosis served as a wake-up call.
Michael Buble’s eldest son Noah was diagnosed with hepatoblastoma at the age of three in 2016, reminisced on how the now 10-year-old’s struggle affected his life.
“It pulled the curtain from over my eyes,” Michael said on the December 21 edition of The Diary of a CEO podcast. “That was a sledgehammer to my reality.”
Noah, Michael’s son with wife Luisana Lopilato, is currently in remission. However, their son’s fight with the cancer as a toddler caused the “Haven’t Met You Yet” singer to rethink his priorities.
“When it actually happened, I was going through a crisis,” he said. “I don’t think I was a bad person. But it was the blinders—career, ambition, and the question, ‘How can I become the baddest, largest, best?’ More ego, power, and money.”
When they learnt of his son’s illness, the gravity of the situation became clear.
“I went, ‘OK, this is it,'” Michael remembered. “‘This is how life is. This is what matters. It’s not like I considered it. There was no time to think about it.'”
That’s when the 48-year-old made a life-changing pledge to himself.
“I remember closing my eyes and saying to myself, ‘If we get out of this, I’m living a different life, a better life,'” he said. “‘I want to be kinder, I want to be more empathetic, I don’t want that ego and that false self to take over, I want to know how lucky I am.'”
“‘I’m a lucky man,'” Michael, who has two children with Luisana, Elias, four, and Vida, one, went on. “‘Look at my wife, what happened?” ‘How did I get this great human being, the best of us all, to guide and carry me through these things?'”
And the artist has made it apparent that he takes his vow seriously by sharing peeks inside his life on social media, including a touching birthday message to Noah.
“You don’t even know how much we love you,” Michael said in the Aug. 27 video. “Thank you for teaching us how to be parents and for all the memories we have and will make together!!!”
