Jessie J Announces She’s Cancer-Free 11 Months After Revealing Breast Cancer Diagnosis: ‘I Sobbed for Hours’

Gabrielle RocksonFri, May 22, 2026 at 9:39 AM UTC

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Jessie J shared in an Instagram Reel on Thursday, May 21, that she is cancer-free after revealing her breast cancer diagnosis in June 2025

The singer underwent a mastectomy shortly after revealing her diagnosis

"I sobbed for hours and then exhaled for the first time in a year," she wrote in her caption

Jessie J has revealed that she’s cancer-free.

On Thursday, May 21, the singer, 38, shared an Instagram Reel of her recent checkup in the hospital before announcing that her health update.

In June 2025 that Jessie, born Jessica Cornish, announced that she been diagnosed with breast cancer while promoting her latest album, Don't Tease Me with a Good Time.

She then underwent a mastectomy shortly after.

“So I’m back for my yearly checkup. I’m actually s---ing myself, I’m not gonna lie. They told me there was no contrast but I think there is based on this,” she said as she held her arm up in her Instagram Reel on Thursday. “Gotta go in for my MRI. Pretend I’m not claustrophobic.”

Jessie J during her yearly checkup in the hospital
Credit: Jessie J/Instagram

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She added, “If you haven’t had a breast MRI, you have to lay on your front and put your arms in the air like superman. I might have to have a bigger bucket this time for these big old b---- but fingers crossed all good, all good."

"Positive vibes,” the “Price Tag” singer continued before singing Bob Marley's “Don’t Worry About a Thing.”

While Jessie’s video ended just after her singing, the “Do It Like a Dude” artist revealed her positive health update in her caption.

“‼️RESULTS ARE IN AND I AM CANCER FREE‼️😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭I sobbed for hours and then exhaled for the first time in a year 🌱🔋,” she wrote.

Jessie’s joyful news comes after she joked about her diagnosis being the “rudest thing that my boobs could've ever” done.

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Speaking at her No Secrets Tour in New York City's Irving Plaza on Jan. 28, she said, "Last year, for me, was the year of perspective. It was a year of picking my battles.”

"Having breast cancer 10 days before releasing [a new album for the first time in] years was honestly the most rudest thing that my boobs could’ve ever have done," she joked. "Like, really?"

Following a few laughs from the crowd, the "Domino" singer added, "No one knows how to react when I start making titty cancer jokes."

"It was a weird time," Jessie continued. "It was the most interesting, it was like Jessica and Jessie J had to hold each other. And Jessica got Jessie J through and Jessie J got Jessica through, and I mean that as a parent, as a performer, as a friend, as a sister, as a daughter, as a mum. All to them just kind of became one."

Jessie shares son Sky, 3, with boyfriend Chanan Safir Colman.

Jessie J performing in Brazil in April 2024
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"It wasn’t, ‘I’m becoming this.’ It was, ‘I am this.' And it was just a really interesting perspective shift for me, and I really embraced it. And honestly people are just going, ‘Are you good now?’ And I’m like, ‘I’m alive. I am so good,’ " she said.

She then joked about having "wonky tits" after undergoing her mastectomy, saying, "It's fine. I can deal with that.”

"They are not related right now ... But I can sing, so that's alright," Jessie added.

She then turned her attention to crowd members who may be going through similar experiences. "For anyone here that has been through cancer or is going through it or may go through it, hold on. Hold the f--- on," she said.

"Eat good, feel good, read good, be around good. A positive mind, honestly, it heals the body from the inside out. It helps, it doesn’t heal, it helps. It supports," Jessie added. "And I’m sorry. Illness out of nowhere in any way, in any shape, any form, just sucks."

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