Singer Michael Bublé has recalled the terrifying moment he looked death in the eye before a stranger saved his life.
Bublé, known for his Christmas hits, almost had his holiday season turn to tragedy while he was out for a walk with actor Barry Pepper.
The incident took place following a wrap party in the Canadian province of Manitoba and he had consumed a few drinks.
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“I think, in the moment, we’re like, ‘You know what we should do? We should like race down the beach’,” Bublé shared on the Kelly Clarkson Show.
“And so me and him and another guy came running down this beach.
“A guy that lived there just started swearing, literally swearing at us and just screaming — I mean screaming bloody murder.”
“We didn’t realise we were running to our certain death, he explained.
“Because there were polar bears all down the beach. And yes, they’re the most aggressive — but God, they’re so cuddly.
“Sometimes I wonder about that, how close I was to being like a little polar bear lunch.”
Gripped by the story, host Kelly Clarkson remarked, “Who would’ve thought there were just polar bears — nobody ever hears that. ‘Oh, there’s polar bears hanging on the beach.’ It just doesn’t happen.”
The revelation comes weeks after Bublé opened up about the challenging few years of his 10-year-old son Noah’s battle with a rare type of liver cancer.
Noah was just three years old when he was diagnosed with hepatoblastoma, a diagnosis that Bublé said was a “sledgehammer” to the family and which forced him to “reset” his priorities. .
“My son’s cancer diagnosis rocked my world. It pulled the curtain from over my eyes,” Bublé said on Diary of a CEO.
“I don’t want to get deeper into it, but I don’t think I had context.
“That was a sledgehammer to my reality. I will never be carefree again in my life, and that’s OK.”
“It is a privilege for me to exist, and that pain, fear and suffering that comes with those sorts of things, it’s part of this life,” he said.
“When it actually happened, I was going through a crisis.
“I don’t think I had my priorities straight.
“My family was always a love — I don’t think I was a terrible guy but it was blinders — career, ambition, how do I become the baddest, biggest, best? More ego, more power.”
Bublé said that following the diagnosis he promised himself to abandon his ego.
“It’s like life was lived with, like, a curtain in front of me, like a filter,” he said.
“And the moment that they said, ‘This is what’s happening’, that reality hit me — filter gone, in a moment.
“I went OK, ‘This is it, this is life, that is what’s important’.
“It’s not like I thought about it. I didn’t. there was no time to process it.
“I remember closing my eyes and saying to myself, ‘If we get out of this, I’m living a different life, a better life’.”
“And I did, I made that promise to myself in a moment.”
Bublé said he wished to be kinder and more empathetic and to realise his luck.
Alongside Noah, the couple has Elias, 7, Vida, 5, and Cielo, 12 months.
Noah’s cancer was treated with chemotherapy and radiotherapy and he has been in remission since 2017.
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