*Gabrielle Union says her husband, Dwyane Wade is now cancer-free after he had a tumor on his kidney removed.
“He’s had the surgery, and he’s cancer-free, but it was a challenge,” Union said on Thursday’s episode of “The View,” Page Six reports.
Wade, 43, revealed on his podcast The Why With Dwyane Wade that he underwent surgery in December 2023, during which doctors removed 40% of his kidney.
“Thank God that I did do the surgery, right?” Wade said. “Because the tumor was cancerous.”
“I think it was the first time my family, my dad, my kids, they saw me weak,” the father of five added. “That moment was probably the weakest I’ve ever felt in my life.”
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“One thing you never want to do as a man? You never want your family to see you weak,” he continued.
The “Bring It On” star explained on “The View” that the former NBA athlete kept his diagnosis “very under the radar.”
“He didn’t tell everybody,” she recalled. “He didn’t even tell our whole family.”
Speaking on TODAY with Jenna & Friends on February 26, Union described the experience as a tough time for their family.
“Obviously, him getting that diagnosis was traumatic for him, you know, being faced with your own mortality in your early 40s,” she said. “You’re like, ‘Am I going to be here to see my family? Who am I without this big life? Without this healthy body?’”
“But you also don’t understand the journey and the toll it takes on your marriage, on your family, on your kids,” Union continued.
“That level of vulnerability, to go through removal of a good chunk of his kidney and the healing that involved, he needed us to be OK with his vulnerability. But more than that, he needed to be OK with his vulnerability,” the actress said. “It was a challenge to give grace and receive it.”
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