{"id":166416,"date":"2025-06-08T01:37:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T01:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/166416\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T01:37:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T01:37:16","slug":"jessie-j-hinted-at-secret-health-battle-weeks-before-announcing-her-breast-cancer-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/166416\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessie J ‘hinted at secret health battle weeks before announcing her breast cancer diagnosis’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jessie J<\/a> appeared to drop a hint about her cancer diagnosis weeks ago during a performance in London.<\/p>\n

The singer, 37, announced\u00a0she has been diagnosed with breast cancer<\/a>\u00a0in a social media post on Wednesday and said the condition had been caught ‘early’.<\/p>\n

But the announcement appears all the more poignant now given what Jessie is reported to have told fans while performing at Union Chapel on May 20.<\/p>\n

Accorrding to The Mirror<\/a>, the star told her fans at the show she was putting herself first and wanted to have fun.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She said:\u00a0‘I know we are all going through our own battles in life, we are all struggling in our own way. We talk about it sometimes, and sometimes we don’t.<\/p>\n

From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail\u2019s new Showbiz newsletter<\/a> to stay in the loop.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Jessie J appeared to drop a hint about her cancer diagnosis weeks ago during a performance in London<\/p>\n

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The singer, 37, announced she has been diagnosed with breast cancer in a social media post on Wednesday and said the condition had been caught ‘early’<\/p>\n

‘I’m grateful I have the voice<\/a> and the strength to be able to put those experiences into songs that people can take and make them their own soundtrack to help them get through a tough time, a good time, a scary time.’<\/p>\n

The hitmaker also seemed to reference her cancer battle when she introduced her new song No Secrets.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘This song for me, more so than ever\u00a0right now, is getting me through my life,’ she said.<\/p>\n

No Secrets was Jessie’s comeback song after a four-year hiatus, during which time she welcomed her son Sky, two, with basketball star Chanan Colman<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jessie revealed that she discovered she had the illness before the release of her hit new single No Secrets, which was released on April 25.<\/p>\n

The mother of one said she would be undergoing surgery after performing at the Summertime Ball in London on June 15.<\/p>\n

In the clip, Jessie said: ‘Hi, I have been going back and forth a little bit on whether to share it. I want to but there’s lots of opinions outside…<\/p>\n

‘Also knowing that I want to share with my fans and the people that care about me, also I’m a sharer. I’ve always shared everything that I go through in my life.<\/p>\n

\"But <\/p>\n

But the announcement appears all the more poignant now given what Jessie is reported to have told fans while performing at Union Chapel on May 20<\/p>\n

‘Before No Secrets came out, I was diagnosed with early breast cancer. Cancer sucks in any form but I’m holding onto the word early.<\/p>\n

‘I have been in and out of tests throughout this whole period, adding that she had not been adequately ‘processing it because I’m working so hard.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jessie said she ‘wanted to be open and share it – one, because selfishly I do not talk about it enough. I’m not processing it ’cause I’m working so hard.’<\/p>\n

She added: ‘I also know how much sharing in the past has helped me, with other people giving me their love and support and also their own stories.’<\/p>\n

The London native stated: ‘I’m an open book.\u00a0It breaks my heart that so many people are going through so much, similar and worse. That’s the bit that kills me.’<\/p>\n

‘I just wanted to let you guys know it wasn’t something I planned. I’m getting to keep my nipples. That’s good, it’s a weird topic and a weird situation.’<\/p>\n

Jessie reflected: ‘To get diagnosed with this as I’m putting out a song called No Secrets, right before a song called Living My Best Life \u2013 which was all pre-planned, before I found out about this. I mean, you can’t make it up.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

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In the clip, Jessie said: ‘Hi, I have been going back and forth a little bit on whether to share it. I want to but there’s lots of opinions outside…<\/p>\n

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Last month she performed at the BAFTA Television Awards in London, making her grand return to the stage to sing The Award Goes To<\/p>\n

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Continuing the lighthearted mood, she wrote in the caption: ‘No (more) Secrets and is it too soon to do a remix called Living My Breast Life?’<\/p>\n

She joked: ‘It’s a very dramatic way to get a boob job,’ adding that the operation to excise the cancer would occur sometime after her appearance at Summertime Ball at London’s Wembley Stadium on June 15.<\/p>\n

Jessie told fans she would ‘disappear for a bit after Summertime Ball to have my surgery and I will come back with massive t**s and more music.’<\/p>\n

Continuing the lighthearted mood, she wrote in the caption: ‘No (more) Secrets and is it too soon to do a remix called Living My Breast Life?<\/p>\n

‘All jokes aside (you know it’s one of the ways I get through hard times). This last two months have been so amazing, and having this go on alongside it on the sideline’s has given me the most incredible perspective.<\/p>\n

‘BUT… your girl needs a hug. Also not getting massive t**s. Or am I? No no.. I must stop joking?’<\/p>\n

Later reflecting on her news, Jessie wrote on her Instagram Story: ‘Just shared (posted) something super personal I have been holding onto for 9 weeks.<\/p>\n

‘The timing of it has been mad but beautiful and given me this incredible perspective in this time. But honestly I need to process it and, I need a hug.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘You have loved me through all my good and hard times. I don’t want this to be any different.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Later <\/p>\n

Later reflecting on her news, Jessie wrote on her Instagram Story: ‘Just shared (posted) something super personal I have been holding onto for 9 weeks’<\/p>\n

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Jessie’s celeb pals including Rita Ora and Marvin Humes flooded her post with supportive comments and well wishes\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jessie’s celeb friends flooded her Instagram post with supportive comments and well wishes with Rita Ora writing: ‘Your literally my favourite person and I’m praying for you you’ve got this. my mother had it and I know the surgery and any treatment on this matter is mentally tough so I’m here for you. X’<\/p>\n

Singer Paloma Faith commented: ‘Sending so much love I have every confidence you will beat this’\u00a0<\/p>\n

JLS star Marvin Humes added: ‘Ain’t no one stronger than you..you know you’ve got this..’ whilst his wife, Saturdays star Rochelle posted: ‘We love you so much.’<\/p>\n

Strictly Come Dancing star Amy Dowden, who has fought her own breast cancer battle, said she was ‘sending so much love and strength.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

Scott Mills also paid tribute to the pop star on his Radio 2 Breakfast Show on Wednesday morning, after it was announced that Jessie is playing at Radio 2 in the Park in Chelmsford in September.<\/p>\n

‘Jessie, just to say, we’re sending all the Radio 2 love your way,’ Scott said on air. ‘Sending so much love to you and your family and we will see you in Chelmsford.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jessie J appeared to drop a hint about her cancer diagnosis weeks ago during a performance in London.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[92,77,14817,257,197,813,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-166416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-dailymail","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-jessie-j","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-sky","13":"tag-tvshowbiz","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114645188427514855","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}