{"id":628763,"date":"2026-10-12T23:28:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T23:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/628763\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T23:28:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T23:28:30","slug":"youtuber-grace-helbig-undergoing-brain-surgery-to-remove-2-tumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/628763\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTuber Grace Helbig Undergoing Brain Surgery to Remove 2 Tumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/gracehelbig\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grace Helbig<\/a> is shifting her focus to her health.<\/p>\n<p>Four days after the comedian canceled the Canada stops of her Let Me Get This Off My Chest tour due to what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DePRYL0NgSR\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">she described<\/a> as \u201cnumbness\u201d in her legs, she told fans she had \u201ctwo things\u201d to update them on, quipping with a laugh, \u201cAnd they\u2019re both brain tumors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI ended up coming to the emergency room, and they found two tumors in my brain because she missed me. My cancer missed me,\u201d Helbig said in an Oct. 12 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DeZr7KXtobK\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> video, referencing her 2023 battle with breast cancer. \u201cSo, I&#8217;m getting a brain surgery on Wednesday, which is obviously a normal thing to say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the difficult news, the 41-year-old\u2014who rose to fame on YouTube, where her @itsGrace channel has over 2.6 million subscribers\u2014is feeling optimistic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are operable brain tumors,\u201d she explained, \u201cand there was a moment in time where it wasn&#8217;t certain. Quite scary.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grace Helbig is shifting her focus to her health. Four days after the comedian canceled the Canada stops&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-628763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628763","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=628763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}