Nick Cannon Reveals He “Wouldn’t Be Alive” If It Weren’t For Mariah Carey
Nick Cannon revealed Mariah Carey saved his life. During a recent interview with Diary of a CEO, Cannon opened up about his lupus diagnosis. He called the diagnosis “life-changing” and detailed how he found out something wasn’t right. Nick recalled getting the “weirdest pain” in his side and determining that jogging it off would help. When he returned home, he passed out, leading Mariah to call for help.
“Mariah came in and found me,” the father of 12 said. “And they rushed me to the ER in Aspen… I didn’t think it was that bad because I had just got back from jogging in Aspen. So they’re like, he probably has altitude sickness. I was just dehydrated so that was the narrative we were going with. But the longer I was in the hospital [the doctors] were like, ‘Oh, maybe he has a kidney stone because theres something going on back there.’ And I was like, ‘No, it wasn’t a kidney stone.'”
He then stated that the doctors found his immune system attacking his kidneys. After Nick was diagnosed with lupus, he detailed how “hard” Carey went to ensure he stays healthy and alive.
“And then they wanted to do a biopsy, and then through the biopsy, I think it was like acute kidney failure. It wasn’t full. I had caught it early enough to where my kidneys didn’t completely fail, and then they found out the reason why is that my immune system was attacking my kidneys… A lot of times it’s not hereditary. They don’t know what the cause of it is. It’s related to stress, which I didn’t think I was stressed out, but there’s various types of stress, physical stress and emotional stress, [that] can send your immune system out of whack and therefore your immune system then starts to self destroy.”
“[Mariah] was my rock man. She went hard, probably wouldn’t even, I’ll be honest, probably wouldn’t be alive if it wasn’t for how hard she went with the doctors with me, my stubbornness. She was the perfect helpmate, the perfect matriarch, the perfect mom, the perfect wife in those scenarios.”
As Cannon continued, he admitted that his wife caring for him and being a global superstar took a toll on their relationship. But it was through “saving [his] life” that the pair grew closer together. “Because granted, she’s who she is in dealing with all the pressures of being Mariah Carey, but then being loving enough to take on all of my stuff,” he disclosed. “And it probably took a toll on us just because of the person I was in my head and the struggles that I was dealing with. So I probably took a toll on our relationship, but it definitely brought us closer together.”
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