Gabrielle Union Reveals Husband Dwyane Wade Is Cancer-Free: 'It Was a Challenge'

Mar. 15, 2025

Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union attend the 2025 Vanity Fair Oscar Party on March 02, 2025.Photo:Dia Dipasupil/FilmMagic

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Gabrielle Unionis giving an update on her husbandDwyane Wade’s health followingthe removal of a cancerous tumor from his kidney.

The Hall of Fame basketball star, 43, revealed in a January episode ofThe WY Networkpodcast that he had 40% of his right kidney removed after undergoing surgery on Dec. 18, 2023.

The initial news about Wade’s cancer diagnosis left Union “in such shock,” she said.

“You hear cancer [and] you’re paralyzed because you think of the absolute worst-case scenario. I’ve had so many friends who are cancer survivors,” she continued. “I didn’t go there; I went to ‘he’s gone.’ "

She said it took her and her loved ones “a while” to digest the news.

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Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union attend the Clooney Foundation for Justice’s The Albies at New York Public Library on September 26, 2024 in New York City.Dia Dipasupil/Getty

Dia Dipasupil/Getty

“He didn’t tell everybody. He didn’t even tell our whole family. He really wanted this to be very under the radar. He didn’t tell anyone,” said Union.

The actress and Wade share 6-year-old daughterKaavia James. In addition, Wade is a father toZaire, 23 andZaya, 17, with ex-wife Siohvaughn Funches, and has a son named Xavier, 11, with Aja Metoyer. He is also the legal guardian of his nephew, Dahveon Morris, 21.

While publicly revealing his diagnosis on a January episode ofThe WY Networkpodcast, Wade said, “It was the first time that my family, my dad, my kids, they saw me weak.”

Dwyane Wade attends the 2025 Vanity Fair Oscar Party on March 02, 2025.Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for Vanity Fair

Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for Vanity Fair

Although he did not want his family to see him in that state, he said they were ultimately one of the main reasons why he opted for the surgery.

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“I had a personal decision to make, and what it was was, ‘If this is cancerous, if this tumor, this cyst is cancerous, on your kidney, you’re 41 years old, you probably need surgery because it’s something that needs to be removed so it doesn’t spread,' " said Wade.

source: people.com