Musician Jake Wesley Rogers Opens Up About Crohn’s Diagnosis and Surgery on Ruptured Intestine
Mar. 15, 2025Jake Wesley Rogers on March 10, 2024 in West Hollywood.Photo:Dia Dipasupil/WireImage
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Jake Wesley Rogersis sharing a health update with his fans.
On Thursday, Aug. 15, theEvergreenartist, 27, announced that he has to undergo surgery due to his Crohn’s disease.
In theInstagram post, he revealed that he was currently at a hospital awaiting surgery. “I have spent most of the last month [at the hospital]," adding that on Thursday, he “will be having surgery to repair part of [his] intestine that ruptured earlier this week.”
As he continued, he revealed he was diagnosed four years ago “and for the most part it’s been in remission but sadly that changed this month.”
Jake Wesley Rogers in February 2024 in Los Angeles.Gregg DeGuire/Billboard via Getty
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Jake Wesley Rogers in February 2023 in New Orleans.Erika Goldring/Getty
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Other celebrities who have also opened up about their Crohn’s disease includePete DavidsonandAbbott ElementarystarTyler James Williams. Thelatter revealed in a January 2023 interviewwithMen’s Healththat he, like Rogers also, wasn’t diagnosed with it until his early 20s.
“I was really pushing my body to the limit,” the 31-year-old told the outlet, noting that he weighed 130 lbs. at the time. “It just crashed. Everything shut down.”
He was then immediately diagnosed after a visit to a gastroenterologist at NYU Langone.
Davidson, 30, revealed in 2016 toHigh Timesthat he wasdiagnosed with the autoimmune disease when he was around 17 or 18 years old. He disclosed that medical marijuana really aided his treatment. “My stomach would be in pain all day and I wouldn’t be able to eat, but then I’d smoke and I can eat and do my shows,” he said. “I’m sick, I have Crohn’s … so it sucks.”
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TheCrohn’s and Colitis Foundationrecommends that people with Crohn’s get a colonoscopy to screen forcolorectal cancerevery 1-3 years.
source: people.com
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