Jessie J broke her silence on postponing her breast cancer surgery for the Wembley show in June.
In a recent cover story for Women’s healththe 37-year-old singer revealed that she defied expectations associated with patients going through a cancer journey, noting that it “made a lot of people angry.”
The Price tag Hitmaker, who was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer in March, just days before she was set to make her musical comeback after a four-year hiatus, said she “refused to be quiet” amid her health problems, saying she was not “handcuffed”.
“I pissed off a lot of people by postponing my surgery for that show. But I knew doing the show would affect me personally, just like Jessica,” she told the publisher. “I feel guilty that not everyone who has to undergo cancer surgery gets that moment.”
Jessica continued, “There were 80,000 people cheering, not because I could sing well or wear an outfit they liked. It was: we love you, we have your back and we hope this goes well…”
“We’re not handcuffed to having to sit down and be quiet and cry because we have cancer,” Jessica emphasized. “I’m going to sing ‘Bang Bang’ as loud as I can. And that’s the moment I thought about as I was put to sleep for my surgery. That and my son’s face saying, ‘I love you, Mom.’”
