He’s the Home & Away star that suffered a brain tumour, and on Thursday he posted an adorable throwback picture of himself as a young boy.
Sharing the image with his fans on Instagram the 30-year-old former X Factor star captioned the post:
‘Guess who’.
Of course, Johnny Ruffo has not aged much since his former years as a youngster and he still bears that cheeky smile, despite his turbulent cancer battle.
Johnny discovered he had a tumour in his brain after his girlfriend Tahnee Sims rushed him to the hospital when he complained of a severe headache.
“I was just at home and I had a headache, but everyone has headaches and you never think much of it,” he tells Who Are You podcast host Pete Timbs.
“It had been ongoing and it just got worse and worse. It got to about 4 or 5 in the afternoon and I couldn’t speak, I couldn’t communicate with her [Tahnee] at all.”
That’s when Tahnee decided she had to take Johnny to the hospital. At first he was told it was just a migraine, but was told to stay overnight for testing. The next morning doctors rang Tahnee and revealed that her boyfriend had fallen into a coma, had a brain tumour and would have to undergo emergency surgery to remove it.
Now Johnny is on the mend and living life to the full!
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