Nivea said she was diagnosed with leukaemia earlier this year and has already started treatment, making the disclosure during Cadillac Chronicles with Brian Freeman. She said the experience has changed her outlook, but not her pace.
Brian Freeman and the diagnosis
“Well, first of all, I was diagnosed with leukaemia earlier this year, and I'm so grateful to God,” she said on Cadillac Chronicles. Nivea added, “I've been going through treatment, and everything is going great so far. And I expect it to continue. Amen, amen, amen.”
That is the kind of update listeners actually needed from her: not a vague health tease, but a direct account of where things stand. She said the diagnosis helped her “put a lot of things in perspective,” and that she lives in gratitude “religiously.”
Music and school
Nivea said the diagnosis has not slowed her down. “I'm doing things I wanna do,” she said, adding that she is “definitely back into my music” and going to school for audio engineering. She said she has always wanted to learn how to engineer, especially mixing engineering in particular.
That matters because she is not presenting this as a pause in her career. She is building around treatment, not waiting for treatment to end before returning to work she still wants to do.
Three children, one focus
Nivea also said she plans to spend more time with her children. She said she has three children with The-Dream and a son with Lil Wayne, and added, “(I'm) loving on my children, and just being grateful and taking every opportunity that comes my way,” as she described the past few months.
The open question is the one she did not answer: what type of leukaemia she has. That detail can shape treatment plans and outlook, so the broad disclosure helps, but it still leaves readers without the medical specificity that would put her update in fuller context.
For now, the clearest reading is that Nivea is treating this as a live health battle, not a career stop. She says treatment is going well, music is back in motion, and her family is where she wants to spend more of her time.
