THE NEW YORK POST – Prior to Michael Bolton, 72, being diagnosed with glioblastoma — a rare and aggressive form of brain cancer — in December 2023, his daughters noticed signs that something was off.
In November, the Grammy winner suffered balance issues and nausea while trying to perform at a charity event.
Bolton and his daughters spoke with People magazine about his diagnosis.
“Is this stress? Is this sleep?” his daughter Taryn recalled in an interview with People magazine published Wednesday.
“He’d been working nonstop that whole time. Traveling, doing shows, doing all of these things,” she said. “We were like, he’s getting older, he’s tired, he’s stressed out. All of these things we sort of explained in a way, one by one.”
Then, during a family bowling night right after Thanksgiving, Bolton kept bowling out of turn.
The 45-year-old called the incident “super weird.”
“That was when we were like, ‘Something’s wrong with his brain,’” Taryn recalled.
She and her sisters, Holly, 47, and Isa, 49, were stunned by a second incident that occurred that night.
“He fell out of his chair to the left, which is very unusual. He’s super athletic, and he doesn’t drink,” Taryn recounted. “So he fell, and we were like, ‘What just happened?’”
Bolton also suffered from a “bad” headache that weekend, which prompted him to go to the hospital on Monday. While there, the songwriter underwent an MRI that showed he had a brain tumor.
The tumor was then fully removed and doctors confirmed it was glioblastoma a week later. He also had a second brain surgery in January 2024 due to an infection.
Bolton confirmed to People that he finished radiation and chemotherapy in October and now undergoes an MRI every two months. Although his April scan was clear, it is common for glioblastoma to recur …
