{"id":2190087,"date":"2025-12-07T13:13:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T13:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2190087"},"modified":"2025-12-07T13:13:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T13:13:14","slug":"country-music-singer-battling-life-threatening-diagnosis-at-28-heres-what-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/country-music-singer-battling-life-threatening-diagnosis-at-28-heres-what-we-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Country music singer battling life-threatening diagnosis at 28. Here\u2019s what we know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"Z7S2KECFI5FGLMYRV3LTDMBGCY\">Country music star Ashley Cooke stunned fans when she took to social media earlier this year to reveal that she is dealing with a terrifying health issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"P52GZR2W6NACZPDXZ25GK5Z7FM\">The singer revealed that she has Brugada syndrome.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"D2ILI4UFV5EOJAZZGH2REGRPLQ\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/brugada-syndrome\/symptoms-causes\/syc-20370489\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/brugada-syndrome\/symptoms-causes\/syc-20370489\"><b>The Mayo Clinic says<\/b><\/a> that Brugada syndrome is \u201ca rare but potentially life-threatening heart rhythm condition that is sometimes inherited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"QWII6CWICNDSTN6DQUTBPILOVA\">It adds that people with Brugada syndrome have \u201can increased risk of irregular heart rhythms beginning in the lower chambers of the heart (ventricles). This disease can cause an abnormal rhythm in the heart\u2019s lower chambers, leading to ventricular fibrillation (v-fib) and sudden cardiac death, often occurring while at rest or asleep.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"NACFM4KS2FC4TIRC5WRQSK2IRU\">She recently opened up about it <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/music\/articles\/country-singer-ashley-cooke-copes-130000711.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/music\/articles\/country-singer-ashley-cooke-copes-130000711.html\"><b>in an interview with E! Online <\/b><\/a>saying that \u201ca lot\u201d of people on her dad\u2019s side of the family have had the condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"47VMXWSTRRGIRNC2TSHYZWSEGA\">\u201cThe toughest part is that I\u2019m still learning about it every day,\u201d she said. \u201cI really don\u2019t know as much as I\u2019d like to know, because there really isn\u2019t a ton that we can know.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"WG77JGF72RHONCASNOHBFSXCP4\">\u201cIt\u2019s the kind of syndrome that nothing really affects you until it does and it\u2019s fatal, and that\u2019s just that way that it goes,\u201d she added. \u201cA lot of people on my dad\u2019s side, they\u2019ve unfortunately \u2014 out of nowhere without even knowing they had it \u2014 had a cardiac episode and they were gone.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"E27N6UBKXVBKLMGG7KPPOOQ24A\">Cooke told E! she is feeling fine and believes she will \u201clive a long, happy, healthy life,\u201d despite the condition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"6JKL6LPKABBGDEQIP4EWDXGBTA\">She is not the only member of her family dealing with health issues, though, so she told E! that has created issues when it comes to her support system. Normally, she said, she leans on her family when times are tough, but when they are also dealing with health issues, she said her friends have been invaluable. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ILLQBDEKFNDNTEXHM5GAYPITJQ\">\u201cI\u2019ve got to lean on those friends throughout that season,\u201d she said. \u201cI vividly remember talking to Mitchell Tenpenny, who lost his dad to cancer a couple years back, and we talked about my dad\u2019s diagnosis and my grandma passing away and all this stuff, and he really was a rock for me, just having great conversations with him.<\/p>\n<section class=\"Stories-By-Section-Tag-module_wrapper__69Ed7 Stories-By-Section-Tag-module_pennlive__kbzmP\" data-gaid=\"\u00abR1ndb8m\u00bb\"\/><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.pennlive.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country music star Ashley Cooke stunned fans when she took to social media earlier this year to reveal that she is dealing with a terrifying health issue. The singer revealed that she has Brugada syndrome. The Mayo Clinic says that Brugada syndrome is \u201ca rare but potentially life-threatening heart rhythm condition that is sometimes inherited.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2190087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2190087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2190088,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190087\/revisions\/2190088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2190087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2190087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2190087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}