Sonu Nigam takes a break to be with cancer-stricken mom
The singer has put a full-stop to all his assignments and has rushed to his Mumbai home after his mother, Shobha, 61, was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer that has now spread to the kidney and her bones.
The world has come to a standstill for Sonu Nigam. The singer has put a full-stop to all his assignments and has rushed to his Mumbai home after his mother, Shobha, 61, was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer that has now spread to the kidney and her bones.
“The doctors are saying that she’s stage four (widely considered as the last stage of cancer). She used to complain about pain but we first thought that it was arthritis. She herself used to brush it off saying that it’s just arthritis due to old age...,” says Sonu. But the pain never stopped; it’s been ten days that the doctors have confirmed cancer.
“Then we decided to get all the checks done and a biopsy revealed that she has cancer. We are all devastated...Nobody (the doctors) is saying encouraging things. We have now gone to an ayurvedic doctor. He has given me hope. I am still trying to come to grips with my reality. It’s real and it’s bad for me. My wife and my family understand what I am going through right now,” the singer adds.Sonu says that he will put a break to his work till he gets a grip of the situation.
“I am laughing, joking and trying to concentrate on my work but I only know what’s going on inside me. I just hope that I get to know of some solution that will put an end to all this... I am planning to take my mom to the US after this treatment,” he ends.