Working on new music has helped Normani during a difficult time.
Speaking to Power 106 following the release of her song “Wild Side” withCardi B, the “Checklist” singer, 25, spoke about what it was like to work on music while her mother Andrea Hamiltonbattles breast cancer.
“This past year, my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer,” Normani said. “For me, this work that I was able to put out into the world really saved me, to be completely honest. Even just being on FaceTime with her as she’s going through her chemo and her radiation, and just wanting me to update her on how this video is going, and how the music is coming, it really got her through that. It got my family through the darkest time of our lives.”
“This was the second time that she had to go through cancer. The first time I was four. So for it to happen all over again, in such a pivotal and heightened moment for my career… there’s so many moments I was like, ‘I need to be at home’ and I felt guilty for not being able to be physically there with her,” the former Fifth Harmony member said, before adding, “I remember being in the doctor’s office with her after she had her surgery in October.”
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Normani’s mom motivated her to continue doing what she needed to do for her career and that she would be okay.
“They’ve been the ultimate support system,” she added about her parents. “Her strength throughout her experience has been the strength that I’ve needed honestly to even be able to allow this to even be a thought.”
Back in October 2020, Normani revealed thather mother’s breast cancer had returned19 years after she first battled the illness.
“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me 🙏🏾 I did it once and I’ll do it again! #CancerWho,” Hamiltonwrote alongside a photoof a rosary. “we got this mommy,” Normani wrote, reposting the story.
“My warrior,” she added.
Normani has served as a global ambassador for the American Cancer Society for several years.
The “Motivation” singerpreviously opened up about her family strugglingthrough her mother’s diagnosis with breast cancer, which affects 1 in eight women in the U.S., according to theAmerican Cancer Society.
“My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was around 5 years old, and it was the scariest point in all of our lives,” Normani said in a joint 2018Papermagazineinterview with her mother.
source: people.com
