Nick Jonas looks back on the life-changing moment he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at just 13 year old.
During the Jonas Brothers’ Burning Up Tour All Over Again kickoff at Madison Square Garden on August 20, the singer opened up about his 21-year journey with the autoimmune disease before performing the band’s 2008 song A Little Bit Longer.
Nick said, “I just wanted to try to write something about an experience that I had as a way to work through it.”
“In a lot of ways it was like a journal entry,” he added.
Sitting at a piano and wearing a bedazzled medical ID tag, Nick added further, “I’ve been living with type 1 for 21 years now.”
“And I look at that kid who was 13 or 14. You know, I want to tell him, if I got the chance to look in the mirror and tell him, ‘Hey, you have all this to look forward to. It just keeps on getting better and better every year.’ Oh, and by the way, to that 13 year old kid, you’re in the best health of your life, so everything is okay,” he said.
The Hey Jonas host told the crowd that “whatever you’re going through, whatever you’ve been through, it led you to this moment right here, right now. I’m glad that we get to heal together.”
It is pertinent to mention that The Jonas Brothers also debuted Listen When Sad during the show ahead of its official release on Friday, Aug. 28.
