{"id":621916,"date":"2026-10-06T04:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T04:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/621916\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T04:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T04:00:14","slug":"cassie-roma-tv-personality-and-entrepreneur-reveals-large-tumour-found-in-kidney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/621916\/","title":{"rendered":"Cassie Roma: TV personality and entrepreneur reveals \u2018large tumour\u2019 found in kidney"},"content":{"rendered":"

She said she \u201cwept and fell into the arms of my wife and best friend\u201d after the \u201cgood news\u201d.<\/p>\n

The American-Kiwi will undergo surgery soon to \u201cwhip the kidney out\u201d, but said the prognosis is promising and her \u201coutlook is grateful\u201d.<\/p>\n

Roma said she was sharing the \u201cgrief and gritty stuff\u201d because \u201clife isn\u2019t always a highlight reel\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cSharing the hard stuff helps us find each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

She thanked her wife, family and friends for their support: \u201cI feel so loved\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere\u2019s to the next season. One kidney. A whole lot of life ahead,\u201d she added. <\/p>\n

Roma is a San Diego-born entrepreneur, life coach and TV personality who became widely known in New Zealand as an adviser on The Apprentice Aotearoa. <\/p>\n

She was later a contestant on Celebrity Treasure Island, raising money for the Make a Wish foundation. <\/p>\n

Roma and Jackson tied the knot this year, both donning double denim in an intimate seaside ceremony on \u014ctama Beach in the Coromandel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She said she \u201cwept and fell into the arms of my wife and best friend\u201d after the \u201cgood…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[74,95,93586,162487,79486,430,14647,156,2036,1874,78,2255,3242,11556,111,139,69,29374,36200,1517,186157,312,21733,437,1533],"class_list":["post-621916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-after","tag-and","tag-businesswoman","tag-cancerous","tag-cassie","tag-celebrities","tag-discovered","tag-entertainment","tag-entrepreneur","tag-found","tag-in","tag-kidney","tag-large","tag-losing","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-personality","tag-potentially","tag-reveals","tag-roma","tag-says","tag-tumour","tag-tv","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}