The NBA legend Dwyane Wade separated on Tuesday after opening on its shocking diagnosis of cancer in 2023.
The 43 -year -old man revealed in his podcast in January that he had 40 percent of his kidney retired in December 2023, after suffering stomach problems and cramps and finally deciding to obtain a physicist. Finally, a cancerous tumor was operated and eliminated.
And although the former Miami Heat star has now declared cancer free, he was excited while he was in Today with Jenna and Friends.
“No one really experienced me to be weak,” Wade said on Tuesday in the program, through People. 'I have always been the strong, the safest, the world champion who has raised the trophies on his head. That is the image, but this was a time when I knew it was going to be uncertain and a little weak. ''
Wade, whose father and grandfather have been diagnosed with prostate cancer, said he felt a “pain that he had never felt” after emerging from surgery.
He also opened about the disconcerting process to meet with doctors before knowing that he had cancer.
Dwyane Wade was excited after talking about his diagnosis of previous cancer in Today with Jenna and Friends
Wade, seen with his wife Gabrielle Union, took a part of his kidney after the doctors found a cancerous tumor
Wade is three times NBA champion and Olympic gold medalist after a brilliant NBA race
“I received a call from my doctor and in the midst of that call, you could hear your uncertainty,” he said. 'They thought they saw something in my kidney. Say, 'Well, we don't know if it's cancerous, but there is something there.' '
Wade said that a different doctor visit also left him “scared” when he told the basketball star that he did not want what was in his kidney, who was not yet determined to be cancer, to spread.
Later it was determined after surgery that had had stage 1 cancer.
Wade, who has been married to his wife Gabrielle Union for 11 years, added that he was “more fear of being so vulnerable” in front of her.
“It sounds crazy because those (his wife and children) are supposed to be the ones who want to be there in those moments of weakness, but you don't want them to see you in that space.”
Wade shares his son Xavier, 11, with his ex, basketball student Aja Metoyer. He was at a break with the union when the relationship with AJA began and his son was born in 2013.
He finally returned to La Unión and married in 2014. His daughter Kaavia James, 6, was born in 2018. Wade also has his son Zaire, 22, and his daughter Zaya, 17, with his ex -wife Siovaughn Funhes, and he is also the guardian of his nephew Dahveon Morris, 21.
Wade is a three -time NBA champion after a brilliant race from 2003 to 2019 with the Miami Heat, Chicago Bulls and Cleveland Cavaliers.
He also won an Olympic gold medal with the United States National Team in Beijing 2008.