Jon Batiste Shares Wife Suleika Jaouad’s Cancer Is in Remission

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Jon Batiste and Wife Suleika Jaouad Celebrate Grammys Win After Her Cancer Returns

Jon Batiste and Suleika Jaouad's romance hits each the close notes, nary substance the obstacles.

Over a period aft the "Freedom" vocalist and his woman of 3 years skipped the 2025 Grammys amid her yearslong conflict with leukemia, helium shared that she is presently successful remission.

"She's doing great," Jon, 38, told E! News analogous Francesca Amiker in an exclusive interview. "Now she has this beauteous remission. That's been the lawsuit for the past fewer months and we're conscionable hoping that it remains that way. She's been taking everything successful stride and gracefully dealing with each of the things that are going on."

In fact, helium revealed that they'll soon deed the roadworthy for Suleika's upcoming circuit for her caller The Book of Alchemy.

"She's capable to proceed to paint, proceed to write," Jon gushed. "All this is happening aft this brainsick recurrence, and it's conscionable the best-case scenario. She's feeling healthy. The attraction is moving and we're precise inspired."

While helium and Suleika—who was archetypal diagnosed with leukemia successful 2010 earlier relapsing successful December 2021 and again during summertime 2024—are basking successful the positives, they cognize that determination volition ever beryllium ups and downs that travel with her health.

"It's conscionable a process," Jon explained. "It goes done these antithetic moments of treatments that are indefinite for her, it won't stop. It volition proceed until there's immoderate innovation. We cognize that."

"Sometimes the crab volition beryllium gone," helium continued, "other times, we'll person to woody with what comes erstwhile it comes backmost and that's conscionable a portion of our life. I enactment her successful that."

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The Grammy victor emphasized that perchance losing your spouse makes you reevaluate your priorities. "It tests you," helium added. "We each person these things that situation america to physique our quality and fortify our relationships."

For The Late Show alum and Suleika, 36, helium noted, "It's really strengthened our narration and transportation due to the fact that we already were close."

As for however Jon and Suleika prioritize their romance amid their engaged schedules? Sometimes, it's spending day nights successful their INFINITI QX80 listening to euphony connected its 24-speaker Klipsch Individual Audio. So, it was lone fitting helium partnered with the marque for their latest car.

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"We emotion going connected drives," helium said. "The imaginativeness of our corporate acquisition together—a batch of it happens successful the car. I was precise excited astir reasoning astir a marque that's astir the aforesaid precision and innovation that I'm astir with my trade that feels similar there's a extent of comfort."

"When you beryllium successful the rider seat, oregon you're successful the driver's seat, and you're conscionable with idiosyncratic you love—it feels similar a lukewarm hug conscionable being successful the car," helium continued. "I conscionable consciousness that vigor and we truly bask that prime of craftsmanship. So, it's a cleanable acceptable successful that way."

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