Normani hinted this week that cancer has affected her family once again. The news was confirmed after her mother posted that she’s relying on her faith as she faces the disease.
The Atlanta-born singer and former member of Fifth Harmony tweeted Sunday indicating that cancer had entered her life in some fashion, but didn’t provide any details. Fans immediately began speculating and sending well wishes in reply.
“:( hope whatever is going on that it will get better, sending you nothing but love and support,” one fan said.
Another remarked, “i don’t know what happened but i hope you’re okay.”
Not long after, Normani’s mother, Andrea Hamilton, posted a photo on Instagram of a cross necklace resting in her hand.
“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me,” she wrote with a praying hands emoji. “I did it once and I’ll do it again! #CancerWho.”
Hamilton did not disclose if it was specifically breast cancer that had affected her.
In a screenshot of Normani’s Instagram Story captured by Entertainment Tonight, the “Motivation” singer posted her mother’s photo writing, “We got this mommy.”
Hamilton was diagnosed with breast cancer when Normani, whose full name is Normani Kordei Hamilton, was around 5-years-old, the singer told Paper magazine. The former Fifth Harmony member said, “it was the scariest point in all of our lives.”
In 2017, Normani and her mother partnered with the American Cancer Society to tell their story and educate about the disease that Breastcancer.org reported will affect about 1 in 8 U.S. women in their lifetime.
“I remember my grandma, she actually picked me up from school and she said, ‘Mommy’s sick.' But I didn’t fully comprehend the severity of how sick my mom was,” Normani said in a video from the American Cancer Society.
“It was very hard for me to process that as well, as well as having a young daughter...my husband," Hamilton said. "And there was a chance that I could lose all that.”
Normani has spent several years as a global ambassador for the American Cancer Society.
