Jessie J Is Cancer Free One Year After Diagnosis

Jessie J is cancer free. The “Price Tag” singer shared the news with fans on May 21 via Instagram, posting a video from the hospital taken during her annual checkup — and the caption said everything: “RESULTS ARE IN AND I AM CANCER FREE!! I sobbed for hours and then exhaled for the first time in a year.”

In the clip, Jessie is dressed in a hospital gown, an IV port in her arm, sitting in a waiting room before heading in for her MRI. She’s nervous, and she doesn’t try to hide it. “I’m actually s–tting myself, I’m not gonna lie,” she tells the camera. “They told me there was no contrast, but I think there is based on this.”

She also gave fans a quick education in what a breast MRI actually involves. “If you haven’t had a breast MRI, you have to lay on your front and put your arms in the air like Superman,” she said. “I might have a bigger bucket this time for this big old b—h.” Then she went in — and came out with the best possible news.

A Year That Changed Everything

Jessie — born Jessica Ellen Cornish — was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer in late March 2025, just weeks before the release of her single “No Secrets.” She went public with the news in June 2025, saying she’d gone back and forth over whether to share it but ultimately wanted to be open with the fans and people who cared about her.

“I was diagnosed with early breast cancer,” she told followers at the time. “Cancer sucks in any form, but I’m holding on to the word ‘early’.” She didn’t shy away from dark humor either — “It’s a very dramatic way to get a boob job” — while making clear she was pressing pause on touring to have surgery. She subsequently underwent a mastectomy and breast reconstruction.

Last August, she cancelled all U.S. dates of her No Secrets tour and postponed her UK and European shows ahead of a second surgery. It was a lot to absorb for an artist who had only recently returned to music — Don’t Tease Me With a Good Time, her first album in eight years and her debut on her own self-titled label after parting ways with Republic Records, dropped in November.

Back on Stage — and Moving Forward

The comeback moment came at the BBC Radio 2 In the Park festival in Essex, where Jessie took the stage for the first time after her procedure. It was also the first time her two-year-old son watched his mother perform live.

Before she sang her track “Living My Best Life,” she told the crowd exactly what the song meant to her. “Some of you may know it, some of you may not know it, but what this song’s about — I was diagnosed literally two weeks before this song was released, and everyone said, ‘Let’s stop, let’s just put everything on hold,’ and I said, ‘That’s not what life’s about.’”

“Life is about standing in the storm but holding up your umbrella and just keep moving forward,” she continued. “So this song is called ‘Living My Best Life,’ and that is what I’m doing every single damn day. ‘Cause we never know when our last day will be, so soak this up, hug the people you love hard.”

“I’m just so grateful to be here,” she told the crowd. “You have no idea how grateful I am to see so many of you singing along after all these years.”

Throughout the past year, Jessie has been open about the emotional “lows and highs” of her cancer journey, consistently encouraging fans to get checked and take care of themselves. Now, a year after a diagnosis that upended her life and her career, she finally has the news she’d been waiting for. Cancer free.