• When his son was told a cancer diagnosis, Michael Buble felt like less of a “superhero.”
• His son was diagnosed with liver cancer at the age of three in 2016.
• “My wife and I went through this unthinkable thing”.

The eldest child of the singer, 47-year-old Noah Lopilato, and his wife, Luisana Lopilato, was diagnosed with liver cancer at the age of three in 2016, forcing the singer to give up his well-known “alter ego,” which he described as having “changed in a huge way.” Noah is now nine years old.

He told the new issue of Red magazine: “That, of course, changed me in a big way – it changed what mattered to me, it changed how I saw life.

“For most of my life as an entertainer and, especially on stage, I’d become my alter ego. I’d become the superhero I always wanted to be.

“Then my wife and I went through this unthinkable thing, and I lost that alter ego.”

The ‘I’ll Never Not Love You’ hitmaker married Luisana in 2011 and he believes the key to his strong relationship with the 35-year-old beauty – with whom he also has Elias, seven, Vida, four, and Cielo, five months – is giving one another the time and space to find “fulfilment”.

He said: “More than anything, my wife and I understand that each other’s fulfilment is important…

“I’m not saying we’re perfect – nobody is – but we both have that understanding.

“I won’t be touring for certain months next year because she’ll be filming a movie, and so I’ll be Daddy on set, and then she’ll do the same for me. We don’t care what we do – being together is the goal.”

Michael recently claimed he would have been more successful if he had not started a family, and thinks about what could have been ‘all the time’.

He admitted: “You can’t do both successfully. Relatively, you can have success, but I think one always suffers.

“It’s funny, if you talk to my manager, he’s a beautiful guy, but he’s managed a lot of big careers. He’d say flat out, ‘If Bublé didn’t get married and have those kids he’d be a bigger star, easily, truthfully… my manager always says to me, ‘It isn’t tough to make the decisions kid, it’s tough to live with the consequences of those decisions.”

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