Gabrielle Union is opening up about how she navigated her husband Dwyane Wade’s cancer diagnosis.
Today With Jenna and Friends. “You’re like, ‘Am I going to be here to see my family? Who am I without this big life? Without this healthy body?’”
diagnosed with a cancerous tumor on his kidney nearly two years earlier that required surgery. Wade’s procedure, which removed most of one of Wade’s kidneys, took place in December 2023 and was ultimately successful.
his “journey of healing.”
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Siovaughn Funches, son Xavier, 10, with ex Aja Metoyer and daughter Kaavia, 6, with Union. Along with Union, Wade’s father sat at his hospital bedside post-surgery.
Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union. Marleen Moise/Getty Imagesthe healing that involved, he needed us to be OK with his vulnerability,” Union explained to host Jenna Bush Hager. “But more than that, he needed to be OK with his vulnerability. It was a challenge to give grace and receive it.”
The retired athlete had noted on his podcast last month that the health scare was likely the first time that his children “saw him weak.”
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“That moment was probably the weakest point I’ve ever felt in my life,” Wade said at the time. “The moments I was by myself, I was struggling. One thing you never want to do as a man … is [for] your family to see you weak. It’s tough.”
see his family rally around him.
“I saw everybody show up for me and be there for me,” Wade shared. “In that process of my weakness, I found strength in my family, in my friends, in my group. I came out of that and I’ve been doing things differently and I’ve been attacking life that way. I’m not waiting.”
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