She is handling it like a boss.
Bruce Springsteen shares an update on his wife Patti Scialfa’s health in the trailer for the upcoming ABC News special, “Bruce Springsteen: Backstage and Backstage,
Rock legend, 75, reveals how Scialfa, 71, is doing after him Revealed his cancer battle in September.
“She’s doing good,” Springsteen said.
Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa at the 81st Golden Globe Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 7, 2024. Golden Globes 2024 via Getty Images
In Springsteen’s other documentary, “Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band”, which premiered in early September, he revealed that she is struggling Multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer, since 2018.
The guitarist explained that his health issues are the reason he took a step back from him and Springsteen’s E Street Band.
“Touring has become a challenge for me,” Skilfa said in the dock. “It affects my immune system so I just have to be careful what I choose to do and where I go.”
Scialfa has been a member of the E Street Band since 1984. She married Springsteen in 1991. The couple have three adult children, Evan, 34, Jessica, 32, and Sam, 30,
Their son Sam welcomed their daughter Lily in July 2022. Making them grandparents.
During an appearance on “The Graham Norton Show” in November 2022, Springsteen said that his children have “no interest” in the music part of his life. But that didn’t bother him, because, “As I always say, they don’t need a hero, they need a father.”
Of his wife’s cancer, Springsteen said in the new trailer for his ABC News special, “We caught it early, which was important.”
The “Born in the USA” rocker continued, “It’s a tough disease. It’s very tiring. He hadn’t played in a band for a long time, and I don’t think people knew the reason for that. ‘Where’s Patti Is?’
In the trailer, the Grammy-winning rock star and ABC News host George Stephanopoulos visits The Stone Pony concert venue in Asbury Park, New Jersey – where the couple met.
Scialfa was diagnosed with blood cancer during the race. “Springsteen on Broadway” Concert Residency,
At the time, the New Jersey native said she was absent from most of the E Street Band’s current tour, which began in February 2023 and ends in July 2025, to focus on her health.
The special airs October 20 at 10pm on ABC and streams on Hulu.
