Michael Bublé is putting down the mic for good.
The world-class singer has revealed in an emotional interview that he wishes to take a step out of the limelight following his son’s battle with cancer. Bublé’s son, Noah, was diagnosed with cancer at the age of three years old and is now in remission. The shock of the diagnosis, however, has caused Bublé to rethink his life choices.
“My whole being’s changed. My perception of life. I don’t know if I can even get through this conversation without crying,” he told The Daily Mail. “And I’ve never lost control of my emotions in public.”
A big part of this perception shift is a complete change in the singer’s relationship with fame: “I’d lost the joy and at some point… I was starting to lose the plot. I’d become desperate to hold onto something I thought I might be losing, and I thought I had to do something special to keep it… But then I started to wonder why I wanted to do this in the first place,” he said.
“But the diagnosis made me realize how stupid I’d been to worry about these unimportant things. I was embarrassed by my ego, that it had allowed this insecurity.”
Before retiring, Bublé plans to release one last album for fans who he thanks for restoring his “faith in humanity.” He teases that this will be his best album yet:
“I’m retiring from the business… I’ve made the perfect record and now I can leave at the very top.”
