Bruce Springsteen has shared a hopeful message at a cancer fundraiser, revealing his wife, Patti Scialfa, is in remission from blood cancer.
In a pre-recorded message in support of the Pan-Mass Challenge, Springsteen shared that after living with myeloma for eight years, Scialfa is now in remission.
Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa have been married since 1981. Evan Agostini
The Pan-Mas Challenge is an annual two-day bike ride founded in 1980 by Billy Starr. The challenge raises money for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, where Scialfa was a patient.
“I’ve said it before: In my world, they ridiculously call me the boss,” Springsteen said in his message.
“But Billy … you and your great team, you are the boss of cancer fundraising … As you know, Patti has been living with her multiple myeloma for over eight years, but now, thankfully, she is in remission.”
The famed rocker praised the work done at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, thanking the nurses and doctors who worked tirelessly to help his wife.
“Patti’s journey has taught us something I hope every one of us and every American can understand: medical research isn’t an idea, it isn’t politics, it isn’t a line in a budget,” he said.
“It’s the reason families find hope when hope seems hardest to find. When we lose sight of that, we lose sight of one another, and that’s too high a price for anyone to pay.”
Springsteen thanked the team again, before playing “one of my best riding songs”, and delivering an acoustic performance of Born To Run.
Springsteen and Scialfa first met back in the early ’80s, marrying in 1991 and welcoming three children over the years: Evan James, 35, Jessica Rae, 34, and Samuel Ryan, 32.
The family first revealed Scialfa’s diagnosis in the 2024 documentary Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. Springsteen shared that she had been diagnosed in 2018.
in 1984, Scialfa joined Springsteen’s E Street Band as a backup singer. They were bandmates for years before their relationship turned romantic. Getty
“This affects my immune system so I just have to be careful what I choose to do and where I choose to go,” Scialfa said in the documentary.
“Every once in a while, I come to a show or two and I can sing a few songs onstage, and that’s been a treat. That’s the new normal for me right now, and I’m okay with that.”