Nick Jonas Had His First Major Brush With The Dangers Of Type 1 Diabetes At 13

Here's something you could might not have known about Nick Jonas: the international music superstar is a Type 1 diabetic.


Formally diagnosed at just 13 years old, he recently opened up throughout an interview with Cigar Aficionado that the incident that actually lead to him being diagnosed was very dangerous, and might have left the singer in a coma.


"I was very close to a coma, like a day away, if I hadn’t gone to the hospital," Nick mentioned. "I kept asking my parents – am I going to be okay? I was just so concerned that it was going to allowance my ability to do all of the things I wanted to do. I was very scared – it’s a big life change."


He ended up being rushed to the emergency room, thankfully, and was just fine – but from then on, he knew he would have to create ensure to take care of himself. Luckily, it wasn't also long soon after that the he realized that having diabetes wouldn't mean he'd have to miss out on the key life events or things he wanted to do – he just had to be cautious about it.


"I noticed out very rapidly it’s a very manageable disease,” he mentioned. “As long as you’re really meticulous Meticulous he has been, and case in point, his struggles with diabetes lead him to write one particularly good Jonas Brothers tune: "A Little Bit Longer." The story is intricate in the band's book Burning Up, as Nick intricate a particularly frustrating day he had been having with his blood sugar that lead to him sitting down at a piano and banging out a song.


"Nobody was in there, so I sat down and started to play. Fifteen minutes later, I called everybody into the room to come listen to the song. They all loved it. It was a really wonderful feeling, because I had been feeling so down."


At least what could have been a painful moment ended with a happy ending. And Nick appears to be happier and healthy right now, so we're glad for him, needless to say, and hope he can continue down that same road.