Michael Bublé's world changed when his son, Noah, received a cancer diagnosis at just 3 years old. During a new interview on The Diary of a CEO, the singer opened up about when he and his wife, Luisana Lopilato, first found out that their toddler has liver cancer in 2016. It was in that moment that Michael made a promise to himself. “My son’s cancer diagnosis rocked my world and pulled the curtain from over my eyes,” he explained. “I don’t think that I had context and that was the sledgehammer to my reality."
"I will never be carefree again in my life," the star went on. "And that's OK. It is a privilege for me to exist."
At the time that their son was diagnosed, Michael said that he was going through a crisis. “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.”
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But reality hit when the diagnosis came. "In that moment I went, ‘OK, this is life. This is it. This is what’s important.’ There was no time to process it.”
At the children's hospital, the singer made a promise to himself. “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 shared.
“I want to be kinder, I want to be more empathetic," he continued. "I don’t ever want to allow that ego and false self to take over. I want to know how lucky I am.”
Noah is now 10 and in remission. In August, Michael shared videos of his son over the span of his life. “Noah, mi amor, 10 years!!! What?? It went so fast, you don’t even know how much we love you,” he wrote. “Thank you for teaching us how to be parents and for all the memories we have and will make together!!!”
Earlier in 2023, the singer opened up to Red magazine about how that moment changed his life. “That, of course, changed me in a big way — it changed what mattered to me, it changed how I saw life."
“I’d become the superhero I always wanted to be," he said of creating an alter ego as a performer. "Then my wife and I went through this unthinkable thing, and I lost that alter ego.”
