JESSIE J has revealed that she is taking a break from music to ‘beat breast cancer’ after her recent shock diagnosis, with her fighting back tears during a performance today.
Speaking at Capital’s Summertime Ball with Barclaycard at London’s Wembley Stadium, Jessie J, 37, got candid as she stood on stage, The Sun can reveal.
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“Talking of no secrets, you’ll know I’ve always been an open book,” she began.
“Today this show is my last show before I go and beat breast cancer.
“So it’s so special to me.”
Jessie went on: “I feel so proud to be from the UK because we’re honest and we say what we feel.
“I am so grateful for this life, for you guys, my career, my son, my partner.
“I have so much to live for. There is so much to do.”
She continued: “This song is the soundtrack for myself.
“This is hands down one of the favourite songs I have written and it’s called Living My Best Life.
“It should have been called living my breast life.”
Jessie concluded: “Let’s put some good energy in this place because I know I’m not the only one going through something right now.”
She then belter out the track to the 80,0000 audience.
At the start of June, the Price Tag songstress revealed she has been diagnosed with breast cancer and would soon undergo surgery.
The former Voice coach, who shares a son with basketball player Chanan Colman, opened up about the sad news on Instagram in video she uploaded.
In the post she told fans: “I was diagnosed with early breast cancer.”
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She added: “Cancer sucks in any form, but I’m holding on to the word ‘early’.”
The singer then said she would be undergoing surgery after performing at the Summertime Ball, meaning her surgery will be scheduled to take place very soon.
“It’s a very dramatic way to get a boob job,” she joked at the time of announcing her diagnosis.
Jessie then explained that she was hesitant about going public with her diagnosis.
But she revealed that she decided to be “open” for multiple reasons.
“One, because, selfishly, I do not talk about it enough,” she said.
Jessie added: “I’m not processing it because I’m working so hard.
“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. I’m an open book.”
She said: “It breaks my heart that so many people are going through so much similar and worse—that’s the bit that kills me.”
Referring to her latest tracks “No Secrets” and “Living my Best Life” she said “you can’t make it up” – explaining she had no idea about her diagnosis at the time of recording.
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