{"id":318392,"date":"2025-11-30T10:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T10:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/318392\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T10:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T10:40:07","slug":"jessie-j-opens-up-about-her-health-struggles-reveals-she-had-a-stroke-at-17-jessie-j-celebrity-news-and-gossip-entertainment-photos-and-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/318392\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessie J Opens Up About Her Health Struggles, Reveals She Had a Stroke at 17 | Jessie J | Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment, Photos and Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/jessie-j\/\" title=\"Jessie J\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jessie J<\/a> is opening up about some of the medical challenges she\u2019s faced.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old singer told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2025\/nov\/29\/jessie-j-interview-cancer-miscarriage-album-dont-tease-me-with-a-good-time\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2025\/nov\/29\/jessie-j-interview-cancer-miscarriage-album-dont-tease-me-with-a-good-time&#039;); return false;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a> in a new interview that she had a stroke shortly after she got her first record deal. It seemed to become a pattern for her, that she would achieve something significant in her career and it would be followed by a health scare.<\/p>\n<p>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just got my first record deal, and I had a stroke,\u201d Jessie explained. \u201cThen when I was about to put out music in 2020 I had a car crash and my larynx moved up and I couldn\u2019t sing for a year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly, I feel life goes, \u2018You having a good time? Sit down.\u2019 Ever since I was a child, it has always gone alongside moments of success for me; something severe or obscure has happened to my health,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Even before that, when she was just 11 and making her West End debut, the \u201cI\u2019ll Never Know Why\u201d singer was diagnosed with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome and would be \u201cin and out of rehearsals on an IV drip\u201d before returning to the \u201chospital at night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This year, she revealed an early breast cancer diagnosis in June and then had surgery not long after. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/09\/06\/jessie-j-returns-to-the-stage-for-first-time-after-breast-cancer-surgery-shares-emotional-message-during-performance\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">She performed onstage for the first time since the surgery in September<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tPhotos: Getty Images\t\t\tPosted to: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/jessie-j\/\" title=\"View all posts in Jessie J\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jessie J<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jessie J is opening up about some of the medical challenges she\u2019s faced. The 37-year-old singer told The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-318392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}