Nick Cannon comes clean about 'mild' kidney failure

Celebrity-watchers were caught off guard when the youthful and seemingly healthy, Nick Cannon was admitted to the hospital with what his wife Mariah Carey infamously called 'mild kidney failure.'...

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Celebrity-watchers were caught off guard when the youthful and seemingly healthy, Nick Cannon was admitted to the hospital with what his wife Mariah Carey infamously called ‘mild kidney failure.’ He has since been released and in his first interview (reported on by the Huffington Post) since his illness Cannon spoke about what happened:

Nick Cannon is back to work after a scary start to 2012 and shared what really happened to him over the holidays on his 92.3NOW radio show.

Cannon was treated at an Aspen, Colo., hospital in early January for what his wife, Mariah Carey, called “mild kidney failure” on Twitter. News of the TV and radio personality’s health scare had everyone wondering what happened.

“I’m one of those people who have always been this way … I thought I was healthy,” Cannon explained on his radio show Tuesday.

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