Johnny Ruffo reveals his brain cancer has returned

Australian singer and actor Johnny Ruffo, 32, has revealed his brain cancer has returned. Taking to Instagram on Tuesday night, the former X-Factor singer and Home And Away star penned a heartbreaking post revealing he had suffered an “unexpected week of seizures and excruciating headaches”.

“It is with a heavy heart that I have to let you know I now have another huge battle ahead of me as my brain cancer has returned; though I will dig deep and beat this shit disease again,” he wrote alongside a picture of himself with his loving girlfriend Tahnee Sims.

 

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Australia actor and fellow former Home And Away star Lincoln Lewis was one of the first to comment on the post, writing: “F**k man, we’re all here with you and cheering you on!!! Sending all our love, support and good energy, brother!! You got this.”

Australian media personality Sally Obermeder added: “Johnny we all love you. Sending you all our love and strength.”

While comedian Nick Giannopoulos wrote: “Sorry to hear this mate but we’ve got the best healthcare system in the world. Your brilliant doctors with the aid of your mental strength & positive energy will kick its arse.”

The singer’s life was turned upside down in 2017, when what he believed to be a migraine turned out to be a very serious brain tumour.

Speaking with Who magazine’s podcast back in 2018, the actor recalled the terrifying ordeal, revealing that his girlfriend saved his life by rushing him to hospital after he complained of a painful migraine.

Doctors initially told Sims to go home – believing Ruffo simply did just have a bad migraine – but she woke to devastating news the next morning as they revealed Ruffo had slipped into a coma due to a fist-sized tumour in his brain that may have been growing for up to 10 years.

“The doctor said: ‘If you didn’t come in [to the hospital], you would have gone to sleep and you would have been dead’,” he told the podcast at the time.

“Basically [the tumour was] the size of my fist in my frontal lobe, so all that pressure was being put on my brain, which explains the sever headaches and blackouts.”