*Gabrielle Union recently shared how her husband, Dwyane Wade’s, cancer diagnosis affected their family.
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.”
“One thing you never want to do as a man? You never want your family to see you weak,” he continued.
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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.”
Union shared a health update on how Wade is doing while chatting with Access Hollywood at the New York City premiere of her new movie “Riff Raff”
“He’s cancer-free now,” she said.
“He was smart to delay talking about his diagnosis and the surgery for over a year to give us all a little time to make peace with it and let all of our very intense fears kind of dissipate a little bit, but he’s brave. He’s doing well. We are proud of him, that he was brave enough to not only go through all the things that he needed to do to take care of his health but to share it with the world and hopefully save other people,” Union explained in the clip below.
“Riff Raff” hits theaters Feb. 28.
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