Louis Walsh (on Celebrity Big Brother) has come out to reveal he survived a major health scare during COVID lockdown in 2020 as he was diagnosed with a ‘rare’ type of blood cancer.
Speaking about the revelation for the first time on Friday, Louis, 71, revealed he had Waldenstrom’s Macroglobulinemia a rare type of blood cancer but has since been given the all clear after receiving treatment in Dublin.
In the shocking update, he told Levi and Ekin-Su that ‘no one knew he was sick’.
How The Revelation Came to Light
According to DailyMail, Levi had asked how Louis spent the Coronavirus lockdown, which he replied: ‘I was sick, and I think nobody knew I was sick. I had cancer. A mild version, a rare one.’
Levi who was shocked asked more: ‘Which part? Pancreatic Cancer?’
‘In my blood, I didn’t even know that I had it until I went to the hospital, and then they checked me, checked me, checked me, then they found it.
Now He’s Healed
‘They said it’s a rare one, and I said [shrugs] gone. Gone’, replied Louis.
According to the outlet, the music manager admitted being diagnosed with cancer left him in ‘shock’ and gave him a ‘reality check’.
He continued: ‘It did affect me mentally, I got to be honest with you. [Points to his head] it’s just up here, even when I go past a hospital I almost get sick.
‘It’s all gone, I’m fine. It was just the shock of being sick and that word…nobody wants that word.
‘I have it blocked out, a reality check, you see so many people sick and it’s terrible.
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‘In my world it was all about pop music and all that. I didn’t think of anybody getting sick or anything like that. And that was like wow reality check, you’re in the real world.’
Coming to Celebrity Big Brother’s house, the former X Factor star revealed he had signed-up to the ITV show to have fun after attending two recent funerals for friends that gave him a reality check about his own mortality.
