(BEIJING) — Kevin Rolland, a French halfpipe star, found out how dangerous and unforgiving a discipline freestyle skiing can be after a serious fall in April 2019.
The freestyle-skiing champion and five-time X Games gold medalist had been training to break the world record of the highest jump, around 36 feet. After a fall, he suffered head trauma, had multiple contusions to his liver, kidneys and lungs, and fractured his ribs and pelvis, he said.
“The doctor was telling me that it might be over, I’m not going to be a skier anymore, I have to think about something else now,” Rolland told ABC News last week in Beijing.
Defying predictions, 32-year-old Rolland took part in his third Olympic Games this year, making it to the halfpipe finals on Friday and finishing sixth.
Rolland’s now one of a few Olympic athletes who are talking openly about the need for mental health awareness, saying it’s OK for daredevil athletes to speak out about their struggles with fear.
In a documentary, Résilience, Rolland told the story of the world record attempt that almost cost him his life in April 2019 and the long rehabilitation that ensued.
“I was scared,” he said in the film. “The biggest challenge was to ski again for pleasure and forget the fear.”
Team USA’s downhill skier Jacqueline Wiles was also seeking redemption in Beijing. A serious leg injury in a crash at a World Cup race in 2018 cost her her Olympic dreams for the PyeongChang 2018 Games. Wiles afterward was told by a doctor that she may have been struggling to focus because of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), she said.
Athletes being shamed for their fears or failures has long been the norm and it continues to be an issue, she said. Four years after recovering from her debilitating fall and several surgeries later, Wiles told ABC News she believes in the importance of sport psychologists and mental health support for athletes.
“Now when I am in the start gate, I have the moment of fear … I don’t try to fight it now, I try to accept it,” she told ABC News.
Wiles’s teammate, Mikaela Schiffrin, who came up short at these Games, shared on social media some of the negative messages she received after failing to finish her third event. Star U.S. gymnast Simone Biles came out in support of Shiffrin, saying, “I know this all too well, I’m sorry you’re experiencing this,” referencing to the criticism aimed at her during the Tokyo Summer Games in 2020.
Now a proud dad of two, Rolland said he owes his comeback to his family. Rolland’s girlfriend gave birth while he was still recovering from his 2019 call in the hospital.
“I pretty much wake up [from the coma] as a dad, which was really weird,” Rolland told ABC News. “I was in the hospital, unsure I’d be able to get back to normal, but at the same time I had a kid and I was so happy, so happy to be alive and a dad.”
(NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.8 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 935,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
About 64.7% of the population in the United States is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Here’s how the news is developing Tuesday. All times Eastern:
Feb 22, 6:25 am
Queen Elizabeth cancels virtual engagements
Buckingham Palace on Tuesday canceled some of Queen Elizabeth’s virtual engagements, saying the monarch continues to have mild COVID symptoms.
“As Her Majesty is still experiencing mild cold like symptoms she has decided not to undertake her planned virtual engagements today, but will continue with light duties,” palace officials said in a statement.
The palace announced on Sunday that the Queen, 95, tested positive.
(NEW YORK) — A New Mexico infant is happy, healthy and thriving after beating the odds.
Jari Lopez was just 9 inches and weighed only 11.5 ounces, lighter than an average loaf of bread, when he was born at 24 weeks on Feb. 22, 2021.
The micro preemie now has the honor of being the smallest neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) survivor from Presbyterian Hospital in Albuquerque.
“Really small for his gestational age”
Amber Higgins, Jari’s mother, told ABC News’ Good Morning America that she started seeing a specialist during her pregnancy after her 20-week ultrasound showed that Jari was smaller than normal.
“I saw the specialist and they said that he was still measuring really, really small for his gestational age, so they went ahead and admitted me to the hospital at 23 weeks and I think like, four or five days, just to monitor him daily and do an ultrasound every single day,” she recalled.
It was around this time that doctors told Higgins and her husband Julian Lopez that their baby had a 30% chance of surviving.
“I was pretty scared … I don’t think I realized how serious it was until then,” Higgins said.
A couple days later, Higgins was told it was time to deliver her baby.
“He was still really small, then he started to have some reverse blood flow and his heart rate was dropping here and there. And then I started to have high blood pressure, which they took as a sign of preeclampsia. So they just said that it was best to go ahead and do an emergency C-section at 24 weeks,” Higgins said.
Dr. Jennifer Anderson, a medical director at Pediatrix Neonatology of New Mexico and a neonatologist, was the doctor on call at Presbyterian that day.
“Most babies born or almost all babies born at 24 weeks will need to be put on a breathing machine, will need to [be] intubated or have a deep breathing tube placed and put on a machine to help them breathe,” Anderson told GMA. “And our concern for Jari was, because he was so, so small – he was measuring less than the third percentile, 325 grams, 11 and a half ounces is really, really tiny – I think it’s almost impossible to imagine how small that is. But the equipment only comes so small and so having a breathing tube that was going to be small enough to be able to pass into Jari’s breathing tube, we were just really worried that we weren’t going to have one small enough to fit.”
Fortunately, a nurse practitioner was able to get Jari intubated without a hitch.
“One of our excellent nurse practitioners was able to pass a breathing tube in and put Jari on the breathing machine really quickly after he was born,” Anderson said. “I think we all did a big sigh of relief that the breathing tube fit because we knew that that was going to be his first challenge. And then when we got him kind of stabilized, that’s when I went over to Amber to talk to her and her husband to let them know … that this was going to be a long road for Jari.”
A remarkable beginning
Jari stayed on the breathing machine for about a month-and-a-half and had to remain in the NICU for 127 days, where a team of doctors, nurses and various therapists cared for him and monitored his growth and development. While in the NICU, he had to get multiple transfusions and surgery to repair inguinal hernias but didn’t have any major problems like bleeding into the brain or heart conditions and didn’t need other surgeries like eye surgery, which can be common for babies born so young.
Higgins said she was focused on Jari during much of the time he was in the NICU.
“I was just trying to get through it and trying to help him any way that I could, just being there every day. I don’t think I really thought about how small he actually was until like, now. I look back and I’m like, wow, he was like, really, really small,” she said.
After four months, Jari was cleared for discharge in June.
“He ended up going home on just a little bit of oxygen which is very, very common because we live at about a mile high,” Anderson said of the elevation in New Mexico’s largest city. “So at our altitude, a lot of our premature babies go on oxygen, and he went home on a multivitamin and that was it.”
She added, “His course was remarkably smooth for a baby born this little and this early.”
Jari today
A year later, Jari is now 2 feet tall and about 16 pounds.
Higgins said her firstborn is “real feisty.”
“He gets really excited about some stuff. And then he’s really active too. He moves around quite a bit,” she said, adding, “We’re just still working on catching him up developmentally because he’s more around how old he was supposed to be. But other than that, is perfectly fine.”
Anderson said Jari’s journey has been amazing to witness.
“We see a lot of small babies but he was tiny. And all of us around his bedside was like wow, you know, he’s really little and to see him now, for our whole team, it’s the best feeling in the world to see him now with his chubby cheeks, turning 1, and knowing how far he came,” she said.
Higgins said Jari will get three birthday celebrations to mark his very special first birthday.
She added that she and her husband felt it was important to share Jari’s story with the world.
“We wanted to get his story out there because he was so small. We spent a long time in the NICU and it was lonely,” she said. “The odds weren’t really in his favor so it’s nice to put his story out there and give people hope, who are also having a hard time in the NICU. Maybe their baby’s condition is different, but it gives them hope because he was so small, and he made it.”
(NEW YORK) — The United States continues to warn that Russia could invade Ukraine “any day” amid escalating tensions in the region, with President Joe Biden telling reporters Friday he’s “convinced” Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to invade.
More diplomacy seemed possible, though, with Biden agreeing “in principle” Sunday to meet with Putin, as long as Russia didn’t invade, but the Kremlin on Monday said talk of a summit was “premature.”
On Monday, Putin said he would decide by the end of the day whether to recognize Russian-backed separatist regions in eastern Ukraine, which the U.S. said he could use as a pretext for an invasion.
While the U.S. says some 190,000 Russian troops and separatist forces are estimated to be massed near Ukraine’s borders, Russia has denied any plans to invade and reiterated its demands that the U.S. and NATO bar Ukraine from joining the military alliance.
Here’s how the news developed Monday. All times Eastern:
Feb 21, 1:47 pm
Putin told France, Germany he intends to sign decree recognizing separatist regions: Kremlin
Shortly before he was set to speak to the Russian people, Russian President Vladimir Putin informed French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz via phone that he intends to sign a decree recognizing the two separatist regions in eastern Ukraine, the Kremlin said in a statement to Russian media.
The Kremlin said Putin informed them about the “outcomes” of his security council meeting and noted that the separatist “republic” had sent appeals asking for recognition due to unverified reports of “military aggression by the Ukrainian government, with massive shelling of the territory of Donbas, as a result of which the civilian population is suffering.”
This comes amid a barrage of false reports from Russia and the separatists of supposed Ukrainian attacks. In the last few days, Russia has also made dubious claims of shells falling on Russian territory as Russia builds a pretext for a possible attack on Ukraine, under the guise of coming to the aid of the separatists.
Scholz condemned the plans to recognize the separatist regions, a spokesperson said, calling it a “stark contradiction to the Minsk Agreements for the peaceful settlement of the conflict in eastern Ukraine” and “a unilateral breach of these agreements on the part of Russia.”
“During the talks, the [German] Chancellor called on the President of the Russian Federation to immediately de-escalate and withdraw the amassed forces from the border with Ukraine,” the spokesperson said.
Feb 21, 12:40 pm
Putin to address Russian people
The Kremlin said Russian President Vladimir Putin will make a national TV address shortly. This comes after Putin said he would decide today whether to recognize Russia-backed separatist regions in eastern Ukraine.
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said, in response to Putin’s possibly recognizing the separatist regions, he has convened his national security council and has held “urgent consultations” with the presidents of France and Germany.
France and Germany are the guarantors of the Minsk agreement and the Normandy Format, which all sides agree Russia will exit if it recognizes the separatist regions.
Feb 21, 10:51 am
Putin says he’ll decide today whether to recognize Russian-controlled separatist regions
Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a national security council meeting that he will make a decision today whether to recognize the Russian-controlled separatist regions in Ukraine as independent.
This came after Putin called an unplanned meeting of his national security council and, in an unusual move, broadcast the meeting live on state TV. The security council unanimously advised Putin he should recognize the self-proclaimed People’s Republic of Donetsk and Lugansk. That would open a path to Russia annexing them, as it did Crimea in 2014.
Feb 21, 10:42 am
Biden meeting with national security team
President Joe Biden is meeting Monday with his national security team, the White House confirmed.
Seen arriving at the White House shortly after 10 a.m. were: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley, Vice President Kamala Harris, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and CIA director William Burns.
Feb 21, 9:37 am
Russia claims to destroy 2 Ukrainian armored vehicles amid fears of pretext to attack
Russia has claimed to have destroyed two Ukrainian armored vehicles and killed five Ukrainians it claimed crossed into Russian territory, in unverified reports as Russia appears to be intensifying efforts to build a pretext to attack Ukraine.
Russia’s military and its FSB intelligence service claimed a Ukrainian “sabotage and reconnaissance group” was detected Monday morning near a village close to the border in the Rostov region that neighbors the two Russian-controlled separatist regions in eastern Ukraine.
Ukraine has denied the Russian claim and it comes amid a barrage of false reports and staged videos from Russia and the separatists of supposed Ukrainian attacks. In the past three days, Russia has also made dubious claims of shells falling on Russian territory as Russia builds a pretext for a possible attack on Ukraine, under the guise of coming to the aid of the separatists.
Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytryo Kuleba publicly denied the Russian claims, on Twitter calling Russia a “fake-producing factory.”
-ABC News’ Patrick Reevell
Feb 21, 9:19 am
Leader of Russian-backed separatists calls on Putin to recognize separatist regions as independent: Russian media
The head of the Russian-controlled separatists in eastern Ukraine is calling on Russian President Vladimir Putin to recognize the separatist regions as independent of Ukraine, Russian media is reporting.
Denis Pushilin, the leader of the self-proclaimed People’s Republic of Donetsk, is also asking Putin to consider making a treaty on mutual military defense.
Recognition would open a path to Russia potentially annexing the regions and possibly openly sending troops there.
The Russian parliament last week voted to appeal to Putin to recognize the two separatist self-proclaimed republics, though Putin initially signaled he wouldn’t do so immediately.
The two self-proclaimed separatist People’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk were formed after Russia stoked conflict in the Russian-speaking region of Donbas in 2014, sending troops in covertly to help establish the regions.
In the last week Russia and the separatist regions have dramatically escalated tensions, accusing Ukraine of an imminent attack and building a pretext for Russian intervention.
-ABC News’ Patrick Reevell
Feb 21, 8:33 am
Likelihood of diplomatic solution ‘diminishing hour by hour’
National security adviser Jake Sullivan told ABC News’ “Good Morning America” Monday that President Joe Biden is prepared in principle to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin if there is no invasion, but that unfortunately, an invasion still seems likely.
“President Biden made clear all along he’s prepared either way. He’s prepared to engage in high level diplomacy to resolve this peacefully and he’s equally prepared to rally our allies and partners to impose costs and consequences on Russia should they choose to invade,” Sullivan said.
“He indicated to the French president yesterday in principle he would be prepared to meet with Putin if President Putin stood down from his invasion,” Sullivan said. “We can’t say anything other than indications on the ground look like Russia is still moving forward.”
Sullivan indicated the window for diplomacy will remain open until more significant military action is seen, but that the window gets smaller as time goes on.
“We never give up hope on diplomacy until the missiles fly or the tanks roll,” Sullivan said. “We’ve been working hard for months with our allies and partners to get Russia to sit down in a serious way at the table, even as recently as yesterday the president indicated his readiness to do that. Russia has not shown the same kind of willingness on their side. The likelihood there’s a diplomatic solution given the troop movements of the Russians is diminishing hour by hour.”
Asked if sanctions will be enough to stop Russia without sending U.S. forces to Ukraine, Sullivan said the U.S. is determined to impose sanctions in the long-term to strangle Russia’s ambitions without the use of ground forces.
-ABC News’ Sarah Kolinovsky
Feb 21, 5:27 am
Talk of Biden-Putin summit ‘premature,’ Kremlin says
The Kremlin has said it is still “premature” to talk about a summit between President Joe Biden and President Vladimir Putin, though it didn’t rule out that one could take place.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Sunday said Biden and Putin have agreed “in principle” to meet, provided Russia did not invade Ukraine.
French President Emmanuel Macron announced the possibility of a meeting after speaking with both leaders on Sunday, amid intense diplomatic efforts to try to dissuade Putin from launching an invasion the U.S. fears could come this week.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that for now there’s only an agreement for Russia and the U.S. to speak at a lower level, between U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister. That meeting is scheduled for this week.
Peskov seemed to suggest that an agreement on a meeting between Biden and Putin would depend on the outcome of those talks.
“I can say that an understanding has been reached that we need to continue the dialogue at the level of ministers,” Peskov told reporters on Monday. “But to talk about some kind of concrete plans about organizing any summits is for now premature.”
Contacts between Biden and Putin can be arranged quickly, if necessary, he said.
-ABC News’ Patrick Reevell
Feb 20, 10:28 pm
US alleges Russia making list of Ukrainians ‘to be killed or sent to camps’
The United States has obtained information of potential Russian operations against Ukrainian targets as part of a potential invasion, including targeted killings, kidnappings, detentions and torture, the U.S. alleged in a letter to the United Nations obtained by ABC News.
“We have credible information that indicates Russian forces are creating lists of identified Ukrainians to be killed or sent to camps following a military occupation,” U.S. Ambassador Bathsheba Nell Crocker wrote to Michelle Bachelet, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights.
That includes the “likely use” of lethal measures to “disperse peaceful protesters or otherwise counter peaceful exercises of perceived resistance from civilian populations,” Crocker wrote.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken alluded to this during his remarks to the U.N. Security Council on Thursday, telling his fellow diplomats, “Conventional attacks are not all that Russia plans to inflict upon the people of Ukraine. We have information that indicates Russia will target specific groups of Ukrainians.”
In addition, sources told ABC News last Tuesday that the U.S. believed Russia aimed to move into Kyiv to decapitate the Ukrainian government and install their own.
But this new letter goes further, saying Russia “would likely target those who opposes Russian actions, including Russian and Belarusian dissidents in exile in Ukraine, journalists and anti-corruption activists, and vulnerable populations such as religious and ethnic minorities and LGBTQI+ persons.”
Ambassador Michele Sison, the top U.S. diplomat for international organizations, is headed to Geneva this week to meet Bachelet at the U.N. headquarters there, the State Department announced Sunday.
“The United States is gravely concerned that a further Russian invasion of Ukraine would produce widespread human suffering. In light of OHCHR’s important mandate and its reporting presence in Ukraine, we wish to share this information with you as an early warning that a further Russian invasion of Ukraine may create a human rights catastrophe,” Crocker added in the letter.
-ABC News’ Conor Finnegan
Feb 20, 8:46 pm
Biden, Putin agree to summit
U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed to hold a summit proposed by French President Emmanuel Macron. The leaders both accepted the summit “in principle,” with one major condition: that Russia does not invade Ukraine.
“As the president has repeatedly made clear, we are committed to pursuing diplomacy until the moment an invasion begins,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement Sunday evening.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov are set to meet Thursday. During their meeting, they will prepare “the substance” of the summit, according to a statement from the French government. Macron “will work with all stakeholders to prepare the content of these discussions” as well.
Macron spoke with Putin twice Sunday, both before and after he called Biden for a brief 15-minute phone call.
“We are always ready for diplomacy,” Psaki said. “We are also ready to impose swift and severe consequences should Russia instead choose war. And currently, Russia appears to be continuing preparations for a full-scale assault on Ukraine very soon.”
-ABC News’ Justin Gomez
Feb 20, 7:49 pm
US State Department gives more info on Moscow safety alert
A State Department spokesperson said the alert published Sunday warning Americans to avoid crowds and stay alert in places frequented by tourists and Westerners was issued “out of an abundance of caution,” stopping short of tying it directly to the Russia-Ukraine crisis.
“In recent days a number of Russian media outlets have reported on a spate of bomb threats being made against Russian public buildings, including metro stations, in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and elsewhere,” the spokesperson said in a statement.
“The U.S. Department of State has no greater responsibility than the safety and security of U.S. citizens overseas,” they said. “Out of an abundance of caution, and in line with our commitment to providing U.S. citizens with clear and timely information so they can make informed travel decisions, we published this alert.”
Cardi B made history as the first female rapper to have three Diamond single certifications from the RIAA in December, but she’s not solely relying on her music sales.
The “I Like It” rapper has numerous endorsements, and recently introduced her vodka-infused whipped cream, Whipshots. Whether she’s recording a song or selling a product, Cardi says everything has to be high quality.
“If it was just mediocre, people would just be like, ‘ah, whatever.’ Things are always going to sell when you have hardcore fans, but I wanted [Whipshots] to be big. Like, bigger than life and that is always the goal,” Cardi tells Complex. “I love my product. It’s delicious and it’s very strong and everybody keeps giving me positive feedback.”
She continues, “This is not only dessert. I wanted a party starter. I wanted something that is like, when I’m in Miami, I start giving [out] these Whipshots on a yacht and all of these girls start having fun. [Or] when I’m in my grandmother’s house and we try to get the party lit because my family likes to have a good time.”
Meanwhile, the 29-year-old entertainer has been the victim of social media attacks, and last month, she was awarded nearly $3 million in damages in her libel lawsuit against blogger Tasha K. She is also protecting her three-year-old daughter Kulture by making her Instagram account private after numerous hateful remarks.
Cardi says her loving fans help her maintain a positive spirit despite the haters.
“Every single time I feel like the whole world is against me, they let me know that, no, there’s still a whole group of people that love the f*** out of me,” she notes. “And hey, I got 120 million followers, like, hello!”
If you had any doubt Lady Gaga was meant to play the villainous Patrizia Reggiani in House of Gucci — think again. One of the film’s producers revealed Gaga was part of the movie from the start.
“We sent the script to Gaga first because it is Patrizia’s story,” producer Gianina Scott revealed in a behind-the-scenes clip, according to ELLE. “And she totally connected with it. After we had her, we knew that we could get an amazing cast to join her in this crazy journey.”
Gaga also shared her thoughts on the drama and praised director Ridley Scott‘s vision, saying he “understands the emotional quotient of a script and he makes room for humanity and for humor. He gave us the space for it to be fun, with a not-so-funny subject.”
Scott also shares his insights in another behind-the-scenes interview, saying while Gaga was hooked from the start, it’s not usually that easy. “The hardest single thing to do is get what you want to do on paper,” Scott said. “Cast will come flocking to a great script with a good director.”
All these interviews and other bonus content will be made available on February 22, when House of Gucci is released on DVD on Blu-Ray. The disc will also feature an exclusive chapter called “The Lady of the House,” which will break down Gaga’s interpretation of Patrizia, as well as “her powerhouse charisma and unwavering dedication breathe life into this complex character,” per the press release.
Gaga was famously predicted to score her second Best Actress Oscar nod for her role in House of Gucci, but did not appear among this year’s nominees.
Last week, Puscifer announced their first U.S. tour in support of the band’s latest album, Existential Reckoning. The record dropped in October of 2020, several months into the COVID-19 pandemic, which sent the world into its own existential reckoning.
Reflecting on Existential Reckoning, frontman Maynard James Keenan tells ABC Audio he feels the album “definitely reflected the time” of its release.
“I do have a lot of conversations with my friends, check in on ’em, see where they’re at,” Keenan shares. “I feel like that album definitely reflected a median feeling between most of my close friends. I feel like like we kind of captured that.”
With the pandemic now nearing the end of its second year, Keenan thinks Existential Reckoning hasn’t lost its relevance.
“That album’s still unfolding for us, still, right now,” he says.
Existential Reckoning is the most recent album Keenan’s released, following A Perfect Circle‘s Eat the Elephant in 2018 and Tool‘s Fear Inoculum in 2019. During the pandemic, Keenan says he hasn’t been working on new music as much as he’s been focused on his other career: wine-making.
“I think more than the audio, visual, three-dimensional arts, instead I’ve kind of turned more toward just the farming,” he says. “Just having that connection to with seasons and harvest, I feel like I kind of turned a little bit more toward growing — literally.”
Puscifer’s tour launches in June. Keenan’s currently on tour with Tool.
Last season on American Idol, Benson Boonegot a Golden Ticket to Hollywood, but then dropped out in the middle of the competition. Now he’s signed to a record label owned by Dan Reynolds of Imagine Dragons and has a hit with “Ghost Town” — which is about the best outcome he could’ve hoped for.
Boone tells ABC Audio he didn’t decide to quit Idol until “far after the first round.” He notes, “When it started, I was just kind of like excited to be there and just having a good time, enjoying what I was doing. But as I went on…realizing that winning could be a possibility, that’s when it kicked in that maybe I don’t fully know why I’m there.”
It was after he dropped out that Dan Reynolds contacted him. Benson, who says he’d been “listening to Imagine Dragons’ music my whole life,” tells ABC Audio, “He reached out to me just over Instagram and said he loves my vibe and my voice, and he would love to work with me.”
“I had never written any of my own music, so I flew out to Vegas for like three days to work with him,” Benson continues. “At the end of that, he said he really liked working with me and he really liked my personality, and so I literally packed up and moved to Vegas the next day. It was crazy! But yeah, he, like, has been my mentor through all of this.”
Seems as though Dan was a pretty good mentor: Benson’s hit “Ghost Town” is now on the radio airplay charts right alongside Imagine Dragons’ latest hit, “Enemy,” from the soundtrack of the animated series Arcane.
On Friday, Benson released the follow-up song to “Ghost Town,” “Room for 2.” He says the song is “basically just a journal entry about this girl…who makes me feel like I’d do anything for her.”
Baby number four is on the way for Michael Buble and his wife Luisana Lopilato.
According to TMZ, the baby news is revealed in a new music video for Buble’s song “I’ll Never Not Love You,” due out Tuesday. In a clip from the forthcoming video, the Canadian singer gets pulled out of a dream sequence in a grocery store. As they walk out with their children, Lopilato’s baby bump is on full display.
Buble, 46, and Lopilato, 34, who married in 2011, are already parents to three-year-old daughter Vida and sons Elias, five, and Noah, eight.
Buble teased “I’ll Never Not Love You” on Saturday as the sequel to his hit “Haven’t Met You Yet.”
“‘Haven’t Met You Yet’ was the beautiful start of a true romance,” he tweeted. “10 years later, the story continues in the extraordinary sequel ‘I’ll Never Not Love You’ 2.22.22.”
