{"id":570988,"date":"2026-07-27T20:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T20:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/570988\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T20:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T20:44:13","slug":"louis-walsh-never-wants-to-be-sick-in-hospital-after-cancer-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/570988\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis Walsh never wants to be sick in hospital after cancer battle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Music mogul Louis Walsh has said he never wants to be sick again in hospital after his cancer battle – saying ‘it was just so scary’.<\/p>\n

The Westlife manager was diagnosed with Waldenstr\u00f6m’s macroglobulinaemia, a rare, slow-growing type of blood cancer, during the COVID-19 pandemic. <\/p>\n

The 73-year-old later shared that the condition is gone and he is doing fine.<\/p>\n

\"LouisLouis Walsh in the Boyzone docuseries. Pic: Sky<\/p>\n

But speaking to host Diana Bunici on her podcast The Delusional Optimist, Louis said he never wants to be sick in hospital again.<\/p>\n

‘I don’t want to get sick. I don’t want to be sick in hospital. I was once, and it’s just so scary. Even the sight of those blue outfits scare me. They were very good to me. I was in the Mater Private, and they were so good to me.<\/p>\n

‘That’s one thing I think we have here. We have great doctors and we’ve got great nurses. We all need them and they’re not paid enough,’ he said.<\/p>\n

The Mayo native also shared his heartbreak over losing his mother, Maureen last year.<\/p>\n

\"LouisLouis Walsh with his niece Lyndsay on her wedding day. Pic: Michael Chester <\/p>\n

The mother-of-nine passed away at St Attracta’s Nursing Home in Charlestown, Co Mayo<\/a> in June 2025, at the age of 94, following a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease.<\/p>\n

Speaking over a year after her death, an emotional Louis said that when she died ‘it was a release for her’.<\/p>\n

‘Maureen was 94. She had nine kids. She was in a home for years. It was the best thing for her because she was just there. <\/p>\n

‘She didn’t know anybody. It’s what she would have wanted, so you know when she died, it was a release for her and probably us as well. <\/p>\n

\"KeithKeith Duffy, Louis Walsh, Sinitta and Shane Lynch at the 2010 Meteor Music Awards, Dublin. Pic: REX<\/p>\n

‘My sisters went there every single day because she was right beside us in Kiltimagh. Oh God, it’s life,’ he said emotionally.<\/p>\n

‘That’s why you have to enjoy it every day.’<\/p>\n

Louis<\/a> also said losing both his parents gave him a huge perspective to start enjoying life.<\/p>\n

‘It’s living in the moment, and a lot of Irish people think it’s wrong if they enjoyed themselves. No, it’s not. More is more. I enjoy the simple things,’ he added.<\/p>\n

\"EditorialLouis Walsh, Sharon Osbourne, Dannii Minogue and Simon Cowell on The X-Factor. Pic: REX\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

Louis opened up about his love for cars, revealing he once bought a Rolls Royce off Elton John. He said he also likes to splurge in Brown Thomas from time to time.<\/p>\n

‘I like to go to Jeff in Brown Thomas because he gives me good discount. He tells me what’s right and what’s not right.<\/p>\n

‘I buy a lot of cars. I did buy a car from Elton John once, a Rolls Royce. It was a silver car with the white wheels and all that. I bought it because I was a fan of his and I loved the car. <\/p>\n

‘But I didn’t drive it around town much. It was beautiful. I loved it. I love cars. I drive a G wagon at the moment. It’s electric and I love it.<\/p>\n

‘I do buy a lot of pictures, like kind of artworks. I have a good few Warhols. I know a good bit about them. Life’s too short. You have to enjoy it,’ he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Music mogul Louis Walsh has said he never wants to be sick again in hospital after his cancer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-570988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}