Sheryl Crow thinks that her mobile phone may have caused her brain tumour.
Diagnosed late last year, the benign tumour is about the size of her little finger and situated between her skull and the lining of her brain, close to where she typically holds a phone to her ear.
Sheryl, now 50, speculates that it could be linked to the bulky old mobile phones she used during the early 1990s while promoting her debut albums.
She stated: “There are no doctors who will confirm that. But I do have a theory that it’s possible that it’s related to that.
“I would spend hours on those archaic mobile devices.”
Having been successfully treated for breast cancer shortly after ending her engagement to former Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong in 2006, Sheryl remarked she had an inkling something was off when she began to forget lyrics while performing and generally felt “mushy.”
During a conversation with US talk show host Katie Couric, she shared: “I was concerned I had early onset Alzheimer’s.
“I was so worried about my memory that I went and got an MRI. That’s when I found out I had a brain tumour.
“And I thought, ‘See? I knew something was wrong.’ I haven’t really discussed it…But since it’s benign, I don’t need to worry about it. Still, it was quite a sobering moment.”
The mother of two sons, Wyatt, five, and Levi, two, took to Facebook to announce her struggle with a non-cancerous growth.
She expressed: “I truly appreciate everyone’s love and concern; I feel incredibly blessed to have the support of all my fans, but I’m good – really.”
by Wallace McTavish
