{"id":10511,"date":"2011-10-10T16:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T20:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10511"},"modified":"2011-10-10T16:20:15","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T20:20:15","slug":"t-boz-reveals-secret-battle-with-brain-tumor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10511","title":{"rendered":"T-Boz Reveals Secret Battle With Brain Tumor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tionne &#8220;T-Boz&#8221; Watkins<\/strong> revealed that she has been waging a secret battle against a brain tumor that was diagnosed in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>In the Oct. 12 edition of People magazine, the 39-year-old said that she underwent a seven-hour surgical procedure back in 2006, during which doctors peeled the tumor from her brain stem by making a cut behind her ear.<\/p>\n<p>The divorced single mother of one said she was battling the tumor earlier this year during filming of NBC&#8217;s <em>Celebrity Apprentice<\/em>, but didn&#8217;t want to make it known to the public. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t want pity. I was there to help sick children,&#8221; she told People.<\/p>\n<p><strong>T-Boz<\/strong>, who also suffers from the blood disorder sickle cell anemia, competed on <strong>Donald Trump&#8217;s<\/strong> reality series to raise funds for the Sickle Cell Foundation of Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>She said people are &#8220;shocked&#8221; when she tells them the news, but added, &#8220;I won&#8217;t let you feel sorry for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tionne &#8220;T-Boz&#8221; Watkins revealed that she has been waging a secret battle against a brain tumor that was diagnosed in 2006. In the Oct. 12 edition of People magazine, the 39-year-old said that she underwent a seven-hour surgical procedure back in 2006, during which doctors peeled the tumor from her brain stem by making a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}