Country singer Morgan Wade has revealed that she’s set to undergo a double mastectomy later this year.
The “Wilder Days” hitmaker, 28, Morgan Wade exclusively told Page Six that after testing for the BRCA gene a mutation in one of the breast cancer genes she was faced with bad news, PageSix reports.
“I had the BRCA gene, it’s a breast cancer gene so I’m having a double mastectomy in November,” she told Page Six at London’s Highways Festival on May 20.
“I’m going really hard up until November so then November and December I have off to rest.”
BCRA1 and BCRA2 are genes that produce proteins to help repair damaged DNA, according to the National Cancer Institute.
When someone inherits harmful variants of one of the two genes, they develop an increased risk of several types of cancers, including breast and ovarian.
“I’m feeling fine, I’m just pissed I won’t be able to work out because I really like working out,” Wade revealed, adding that she works out 7 days a week. “That’s my only qualm about it.”
“My mom had it, and my little cousin is going to get it, but I’ll be fine,” Wade went on, adding that she got the news last year during her gig stint in Europe.
The news comes hot on the heels of the star announcing that her second studio album “Psychopath” will be released on August 25.
The project follows on from her debut album “Reckless,” released in 2021, a record that notably topped Rolling Stone’s Best Country Albums of the year list.