Kelis' Husband Mike Mora Dead at 37 After Cancer Battle

Mora announced his cancer diagnosis on Instagram in September 2021. According to the post, he'd decided to get checked out in September 2020 after experiencing "the worst pain" in his stomach, as well as a loss of appetite and back pain. "It was a bit late," he wrote. "But just in time."

He was hospitalized and "extremely worried" about Kelis and their newborn daughter, the couple having welcomed the child just 17 days before. The "Bossy" star is also mom to sons Shepherd, 6, and Knight, 12. 

"In fact, while she was in the NICU for 10 days (whole other story), I thought the whole time that I just had an ulcer," Mora wrote. "With no idea what was about to come my way."

After undergoing a series of exams, including an endoscopic biopsy of his stomach, Mora continued, he learned he had stage 4 stomach cancer and that the cancer had spread to the lymph nodes in his back 

"I was told people with my disease, in this phase, didn't make it past 18 months," he stated at the time. "It's been exactly 12."