Bruce Springsteen has been facing “questions of mortality”. The 75-year-old rocker admitted his wife Patti Scialfa’s battle with multiple myeloma – a rare form of blood cancer which she was diagnosed with in 2018 – and their advancing years has left the couple considering how much of their lives they have left.

Springsteen, who has himself had to navigate his own health battles in recent years, told ABC News in an interview over the weekend that they chose to reveal Scialfa’s diagnosis now because “she hadn’t played in the band for a long time and people I don’t think knew why.”

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band,' Bruce Springsteen revealed that 'questions of mortality' are now a 'part of life' since his wife Patti Scialfa's blood cancer diagnosis.

Bruce Springsteen is getting candid about how wife Patti Scialfa’s multiple myeloma diagnosis has changed his perspective of life. "Hey, you get up around our age, and those are the things you're thinking about,