Singer Jessie J, 37, gave an update on her breast cancer journey in a heart-wrenching new interview on August 19, and shared how the diagnosis is impacting motherhood for her and life for her 2-year-old son, Sky Colman.
“Yesterday I sobbed, because I miss my boy,” she said in an interview on the Great Company with Jamie Laing podcast. “I can’t be a mom like I want to be a mom, and I feel robbed.”
“The worst part is… I feel like cancer has robbed me of memories with my boy,” she added. “And anyone with a toddler knows that they change so much in that space of time. You blink and he’s chatting.”
The “Price Tag” singer also opened up about what it was like to learn she had cancer. “I had been scared,” she said, after finding a lump that she originally thought was a cyst. Once she learned it was “4-5cm of cancer,” she started to panic.
“I was like, ‘I’m going to die,’” she admitted. “I had moments where I was like, ‘This is going to go left and I’m going to die.’ At that point, I didn’t know if I was going to have extensive treatment. I didn’t know what it was going to be.”
She ended up getting a mastectomy in June 2025 and shared on Instagram in early August that she would need a second procedure this year. Still, she kept a positive attitude and even surprised fans with a music update. “Another surgery needed this year. I can do it,” she wrote. “Raising a toddler. I can do it. Releasing new music. I can do it.”
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Jessie J welcomed son Sky with boyfriend Chanan Safir Colman in May 2023, and he’s been a huge support and source of inspiration for her throughout her health battle. In June, she shared a sweet video of her baby boy cuddling with her in a hospital bed amid treatment, and in July, she posted a clip of him saying “Mummy’s gonna be OK.”
“We called it, baby boy…. I AM OK,” she wrote beside the touching moment. “You are my biggest ray of light, and with you in my life, the darkness will never win.”
