Michael Buble has reportedly put his singing career on
hold to focus on his son Noah's recovery from liver cancer.
The singer, 41, is said to be in a 'huge bubble' and
prioritising his three-year-old's treatment - which allegedly includes four
months of chemotherapy.
'He will not sing again until his child is well, I'm
certain of it,' Michael's friend and Canadian musician David Foster told
Entertainment Tonight Canada on Thursday.
The musician added: 'Right now he's in a huge bubble, as
you would expect.'
'When this happens, everything shuts down around you.
You go inside your little bubble and I don't think he's looking at social
media.
'I'm sure he feels the love from millions of people.'
Commenting on Michael's mental state, David added that
the Canadian singer was in 'good shape' and relying on the doctors around him.
In a statement released last week, Michael revealed he
and his wife Luisiana Lopilato would be putting their careers 'on hold' to
devote time to Noah's recovery.
He wrote: 'Luisana and I have put our careers on hold in
order to devote all our time and attention to helping Noah get well.'
It was reported on Wednesday by an Argentinian magazine
that Noah has liver cancer.
Doctors in Los Angeles confirmed Michael and Luisana's
worst fears last Tuesday after doing a liver biopsy following an initial
examination at a clinic in Buenos Aires.
Noah is also said to have started chemotherapy which is
going to last four months, magazine Gente reports.
Luisana's elder sister Daniela told the magazine on
Tuesday: 'If God wanted it to be discovered that way, it's because he wants to
save Noah.
'Cancer is a horrible illness but we have faith in Noah
being able to overcome this.
'We know he will. The time to start a long and very
difficult treatment has come but it's got to be done.
'They say children are normally strong to put up with
chemotherapy and my nephew is a warrior.'
Argentinian media had speculated Noah was suffering
mumps when Luisana, 29, flew to the States at the end of last month.
She had been preparing to start filming an
English-language movie called Numb, At The Edge Of The End, alongside Harvey
Keitel and Hayden Christensen.
Detailing the events leading up to Noah's cancer
diagnosis, confirmed in a statement released by Michael and his wife last week,
Gente said: 'She took her son to the Otamendi Miroli Hospital in Buenos Aires
because he had a high fever.
'After an exhaustive examination, they ruled out mumps
and suggested two possibilities, a throat infection or mononucleosis.
'To rule out the second possibility they had to carry
out a battery of tests which included an abdominal ultrasound.
'On October 27, after a throat swab, they confirmed he
had a throat infection and not mononucleosis but the ultrasound had detected a
liver problem.
'The doctors told Luisana, 'He has a stain on his liver,
but it's not got different tones and therefore it's probably benign but we have
to continue with the tests.''
Michael, who was working in London, is said to have told
his wife to seek a second opinion in LA and Luisana flew to the States on
October 29 with their nine-month-old son Elias and her parents.
Luisana's sister, a nutritionist and part-time actress,
told Gente: 'It was there they discovered something wasn't right.
'We have very good specialists but for personal and
family reasons, Michael and my sister decided to fly to the States.'
The magazine said they were told after the devastating
November 1 cancer diagnosis that Noah would need chemo and the possibility of
surgery afterwards to remove the tumour - but his chances of beating it were 90
per cent.
Michael and his wife of five years confirmed their son
had cancer on the singer's Facebook page last week.
They said in a statement: 'We are devastated about the
recent cancer diagnosis of our oldest son Noah who is currently undergoing
treatment in the US.
'We have always been very vocal about the importance of
family and the love we have for our children.
'Luisana and I have put our careers on hold in order to
devote all our time and attention to helping Noah get well.'
Asking for people's prayers, the statement added: 'We
have a long journey in front of us and hope that with the support of family,
friends and fans around the world, we will win this battle, God willing.'
Daniela confirmed at the end of last week the youngster
did not have leukemia as she admitted the entire family were 'broken in half.'
She is preparing to fly to LA in the next few days to be
with her nephew, Luisana and their parents Eduardo and Betty.
Telling Gente how Noah was doing, she said: 'He has the
innocence of children and that is good. He doesn't understand too much what is
happening.
'The love people are showing is helping us to see things
with optimism and we have a lot of faith.
The Canadian musician and the Argentinian actress and
model welcomed their second son, Elias, into the world in January.
Last week, Bublé appeared on an hour-long show,
pre-recorded for the BBC in Salford last month.
In Bublé At The BBC, the singer told host Claudia
Winkleman he 'just didn't know that level of love existed'.
He said of his sons: 'I just love them so much that part
of loving them so much is not giving them everything they want and that is a
tough thing for me.'
When asked about returning to work, he said it was 'really
tough', and that Noah did not want him to leave.
He said: 'My son Noah is three, Eli eight months, and
Noah said to me 'Poppy, for what are you going?' I said 'Well, daddy is going
to go and sing'.
'And it kills you, he said: 'Please don't go, I will be
a good boy', and I think I'm the worst human being in the universe.'
Earlier, Bublé's wife Luisana filmed young Noah
singing.
The 41-year-old Canadian singer recently released an
album, Nobody But Me.
Michael has previously described fatherhood as the best
thing that has ever happened to him.
He said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight in
October: 'I love them more than I'll ever love anything, or anyone in the whole
universe.
'I think it gave me perspective on life that I think I
very badly needed. It's hard to be able to quantify that level of love.
'I didn't know that level of love existed. But it makes
me better at everything. It allows me to pull more emotion and be more honest
and to be in the moment.
'The only regret that I have in my life is that I took
this long to have kids, because I had no idea the perspective it would give me.
I had no idea how much I would love being a dad.
'That's it, that's all I care about ... I love them too
much probably, if there was such a thing.
'It's made everything else so insignificant, moments
that I was afraid of and moments that would overwhelm me have now become a joy
because I see how not serious they are compared to what is really important,
which is Noah and Eli and that's it.'
Bublé, 41, has sold more than 40 million albums
worldwide with his smooth covers of jazz standards and original songs.
He married Lopilato, 29, in 2011.
One fan posted a video on Facebook of the performer
singing on stage with Noah in December 2015.
Actress Luisana told Page Six earlier this year that the
doting parents love nothing more than spending all their time with their boys.
'We are a little weird about our kids. We love to be
with our kids a lot. When we are out for one hour, we miss them.'
Bublé was due to perform at the BBC Music Awards in
London's ExCel conference centre on December 12 but pulled out on Tuesday.
He would join Kaiser Chiefs, Emeli Sande and Lukas
Graham on the line-up but radio DJ Steve Wright announced Buble's withdrawal on
his BBC Radio 2 show.
Bob Shennan, director of BBC Music, said: 'We send
Michael and his family our very best wishes.'
Michael is also due to host the Juno awards in Ottawa on
April 2, 2017 and was expected to go on tour next year and do a Christmas
special in Hollywood for NBC, according to www.cba.ca.
'Our thoughts and prayers are with Michael and his
family during this difficult time. We are respecting his request for privacy,
as such we cannot comment on his participation in the 2017 Juno Awards at this
time,' said a spokesperson for the Junos.
In June 2015, Noah sustained 'serious burns' after an
accident involving scalding water.
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