Jill Biden's Heartbreaking Reveal: Joe's Lifelong Battle with Stage 4 Cancer
Former first lady Jill Biden gave a bleak update on her husband’s cancer battle — admitting that the 83-year-old former president has “slowed down” from the heavy toll of treatment for the disease he will be stricken with “for the rest of his life.”
“It’s stage four, and it has metastasized to his bones. So that puts things on a whole different level,” the former first lady said of her husband, former President Joe Biden, and his incurable prostate cancer.
“I mean, Joe will have to live with cancer for the rest of his life, which means he’s on special medicines,” she told “The View” co-host Ana Navarro during a book event covered by Fox News.
Observers had questioned why the 46th president’s cancer wasn’t caught during his time in the White House, and his team revealed that he stopped getting blood tests for prostate cancer around 2014 because of his age.
The former first lady shed light on how it was discovered, recounting how she observed her husband using the bathroom about seven times each night while still president. Yet he only saw a urologist once he left the White House.
“I never imagined it would be prostate cancer,” Jill reflected. “I just never imagined it.”
“You know, it takes a toll,” the former first lady explained about its impact on him. “He keeps his schedule, but he’s slowed down.”
“I mean, stage four cancer is — and he’s 83 — so, I think the mix of everything and the medications that he’s taken has made life a little more difficult these days.”
The former first lady, who has been promoting her new book, “View From the East Wing: A Memoir,” has been forced to reckon with questions about her husband’s health and the debate that gripped the Democratic Party in 2024 about whether he was fit for another term in office due to his age.
She has since admitted that he couldn’t have served out another four years in the White House based on “what I know now.”
Ultimately, the 46th president dropped out of the 2024 race after his disastrous debate against President Trump. Jill had recalled thinking that her husband had a stroke on the debate stage, though she has faced questions about that given how she joined him at a campaign stop afterward and praised him for answering all the questions he was asked.
Despite the toll his cancer treatment has taken, the former president recently attended a Democratic Party event in South Dakota, Jill revealed, contending that he is still active. Jill described herself as a “caretaker” for him.
“It’s hard to be a caretaker,” she said. “I have to make sure he gets the right medications.”
“I’m the one talking to the doctors. I’m the one setting up the appointments. I’m the one to make sure that he eats well.”
During her media tour to promote her new book, Jill has argued there is a “double standard” between the dialogue on her husband’s age and cognition and that of Trump, who is set to turn 80 next week.
Should Trump finish off a full term, he will conclude a few months older than his predecessor did.
