Michael Buble says son's cancer diagnosis was a 'sledgehammer to reality'

The 48-year-old singer reset his own priorities after Noah, 10, was diagnosed with a rare tumour at the age of three. 

The chart-topping star — who also has Elias, seven, Vida, five, and Cielo, 16 months, with his wife Luisana Lopilato — told the Diary of A CEO podcast: "My son's cancer diagnosis rocked my world. 

"It pulled the curtain from over my eyes. I don't want to get deeper into it, but I don't think I had context. That was a sledgehammer to my reality — I will never be carefree again in my life, and that's okay. 

It is a privilege for me to exist and that pain, fear and suffering that comes with those sorts of things, it's part of this life."  

Michael believes that his son's health scare has proven to be a turning point in his own life.  

He explained: "When it happened, I going through a crisis." I don't think I had my priorities straight. My family was always my love — I don't think I was a terrible guy, but it was blinders — career, ambition, how do I become the baddest, biggest, best? More ego, more power." 

Michael decided to abandon his "ego" after his son's health troubles.  

He said: "It's like life was lived with a curtain in front of me, like a filter and the moment that they said, 'This is what's happening', that reality hit me — filter gone, in a moment.  

"I went okay, this is it, this is life, that is what's important. It's not like I thought about it, I didn't, there was no time to process it. 

I remember closing my eyes and saying to myself, if we get out of this I'm living a different life, a better life. And I did, I made that promise to myself in a moment."

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