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  • All right.

  • Grab your tissues, because you're going to need them.

  • This video of a husband serenading his wife

  • before she underwent surgery for brain cancer

  • is the sweetest thing you will see today.

  • Take a look.

  • [MUSIC PLAYING]

  • (SINGING) Every time I look into your eyes, I see it.

  • Every time I get a pretty sight I feel it.

  • Come on, man.

  • Oh.

  • Oh, butterfly, I want you.

  • From Charlotte, North Carolina, please

  • welcome Ray and Roslyn Singleton.

  • First of all, y'all look fantastic.

  • Thank you.

  • Thank you.

  • Y'all look fantastic.

  • I heard you were surprised that we called.

  • Oh!

  • Surprised is an understatement of what

  • we were when you called.

  • When I got the call, my iPhone shows the zip code

  • where it came from.

  • It said Burbank, California.

  • And she said, I'm from The Ellen Show.

  • My head exploded, literally exploded.

  • It was the greatest call I've ever got.

  • And look where we are.

  • And then he called me and he said, hey, I just

  • need to tell you something.

  • Are you sitting down?

  • And I was like, yeah.

  • He said, The Ellen Show just called.

  • And my phone fell on the ground.

  • I was like, you're lying.

  • You're lying.

  • You shouldn't lie like that.

  • It's so close to Sunday.

  • You shouldn't lie like that.

  • He was like, no, they did.

  • I was like, oh.

  • OK.

  • OK.

  • It's so close to Sunday.

  • It's so close to Sunday.

  • You shouldn't tell fibs.

  • Wednesdays are OK.

  • Yes.

  • Yeah.

  • All right, so I can't--

  • you look fantastic.

  • I mean, you look fantastic.

  • [CHEERING]

  • And I guess-- and we should thank the doctors,

  • because you said to them--

  • I mean, you had surgery a month ago.

  • Yes.

  • And you said, I got to be on The Ellen Show,

  • so I don't care what you say.

  • Let's get it.

  • Let's wrap it.

  • I'm doing it.

  • Whatever you got to do--

  • Wrap it up.

  • Wrap it up.

  • Because I'm going.

  • I'm going.

  • Whatever you say, I could care less.

  • Ellen is more important.

  • So let's--

  • Right.

  • Let's figure it out.

  • I'm going.

  • Yes, that's what I said.

  • A month ago you had surgery.

  • Yes, ma'am.

  • January 7, yes.

  • And so, and you--

  • I'm going to say, how are you feeling?

  • But you look--

  • I feel amazing.

  • You look amazing.

  • Thank you.

  • [CHEERING]

  • I feel amazing.

  • So you posted this.

  • Really, basically, you put that together.

  • You sing to her, and then you put that whole little,

  • that we just showed a small amount, of the whole journey

  • that she's gone through.

  • And I assume you did this as a love story

  • just to show her strength of what an amazing woman she is.

  • Honestly, Ellen, it wasn't even that.

  • I wanted just to make her smile.

  • I literally just wanted to see my wife smile.

  • I was in-- she was in the waiting room in surgery

  • for a lot longer than it was supposed to be.

  • So I was nervous downstairs.

  • I'm pacing.

  • I said, I want to make a video for my wife

  • that's going to make her smile after having her head cut open.

  • And look at this million-dollar smile.

  • How can you not?

  • Yeah.

  • You--

  • Look at her.

  • I don't know who to suggest right now,

  • but any one of our sponsors or any

  • sponsors-- this smile is a million-dollar smile.

  • She should be representing some company,

  • because that is a million-dollar smile right there.

  • Thank you.

  • Thank you.

  • So you're a Navy veteran.

  • And this is the second time.

  • So--

  • Yes, ma'am.

  • So six years ago?

  • Yes.

  • 2013 was my first surgery and first bout with brain cancer.

  • And it was stage three the first time.

  • And the tumor was the size of an orange.

  • I don't even understand that.

  • Yeah, neither could I. But--

  • I mean, the size of an orange-- what were your symptoms

  • that you got to that point?

  • So it was-- migraines was the most prominent or the most

  • that I had gotten.

  • I had blurred vision.

  • And then when I would sleep sometimes,

  • I would lay on one side of my head.

  • And when I could hear like the seashell noise

  • from the fluid kind of swimming around in my brain not going

  • in the right directions, yes.

  • Wow.

  • So you said, maybe I should see a doctor.

  • Maybe I should go get this checked out.

  • Yeah.

  • And it actually wasn't me.

  • It was my dad who said-- because I was young,

  • and my dad was like, you're going to go to a doctor?

  • I was like no, I'm good.

  • He was like, you should go.

  • And so I went.

  • And they said, you know, have you had any symptoms?

  • And I told them.

  • And they said, well, let's do an MRI.

  • And they came back and told me it's an orange on your brain.

  • Wow.

  • Yes.

  • OK, so you get rid of that.

  • Yes.

  • And then you're clear for--

  • Six years.

  • Six years.

  • Six years.

  • Yearly scans every-- between July and October,

  • I got scanned.

  • And six years, I was perfectly healthy.

  • So no symptoms at all.

  • None.

  • And then you go in for a routine check,

  • and they find another-- how big was this one?

  • About the size of a half a dollar.

  • About that big.

  • But it was in the same location that I

  • had gotten the first one.

  • So from October 10th until, I want

  • to say, a week before surgery, Ray and I were in the doctor's

  • office three to four times a week every week, doing MRIs,

  • doing scans, blood work.

  • You had to wear the device for three days.

  • I had to wear this wonderful--

  • Headpiece.

  • --headpiece that had, like, this wonderful little Balenciaga

  • bag that came with it.

  • Yeah, OK!

  • That monitored me all day.

  • It monitored my brainwaves.

  • It monitored me while I slept to see if I had seizures

  • or I was having any irregular brain activity.

  • Luckily, thank God, I wasn't.

  • So I just luckily only had the brain tumor, and that was it.

  • So--

  • So that's gone now.

  • The brain tumor's gone.

  • And we start cancer treatment in about two weeks--

  • radiation first and then chemo after radiation.

  • So--

  • All right.

  • Yes.

  • Well, you're going to beat this because you

  • have an amazing attitude.

  • Absolutely.

  • And you have to.

  • We're going to take a break.

  • More after this.

  • We were just talking during the break.

  • And I said what an inspiration you're

  • going to be for so many people out there because it's one

  • thing to get diagnosed once.

  • And it's hard enough.

  • But to beat it and then it come back?

  • And then you have this--

  • you're not sad.

  • You're just happy.

  • Absolutely.

  • Tell everyone why you have this attitude.

  • I have this attitude because I feel personally

  • that God gives battles to certain people

  • just to let other people know that it's going to be OK.

  • And I'm not going to lie and say brain cancer is a breeze.

  • It's not.

  • But positive prayer, positive people--

  • [APPLAUSE]

  • And it makes it better.

  • Also, if they were told me that I had to go to brain cancer

  • to see you, I would have signed that line, like--

  • Let's go.

  • Let's do it again.

  • Sign me up.

  • Yes.

  • But honestly, it's a blessing because there are so

  • many people that are going through cancer--

  • breast cancer, brain cancer, any type of cancer,

  • anything in life.

  • And it's going to be OK.

  • It's going to be OK.

  • Yes.

  • Just keep going.

  • Even if it's not the exact outcome, it's going to be OK.

  • It's going to be OK.

  • All right, there's someone else that

  • wants to say something to you.

  • You inspire a lot of people.

  • And I know you're inspired by a lot of people.

  • And so Dwyane Wade was here on the show the other day.

  • What?

  • Oh, wow.

  • And he left this message for you.

  • What?

  • What's up Ray?

  • What's up Roslyn?

  • This is Dwyane Wade.

  • Kaavia and my wife is not here right now with me.

  • But we're sending our love.

  • We're sending our love to your family.

  • We're sending our love to both of you two.

  • Keep going.

  • Keep fighting the good fight.

  • Keep believing.

  • Make a team to keep inspiring.

  • I'm sure so many people around you guys that y'all inspire

  • every day.

  • So I'm definitely inspired by the story

  • that I've heard from both you guys.

  • And I know my family will be as well.

  • So from the Wade family, much love.

  • And please, please, keep believing.

  • [APPLAUSE]

  • All right.

  • I don't know if you have any plans for Valentine's Day.

  • But I just want to send you anywhere you want to go on me.

  • Dinner is on me.

  • So find a nice Sizzler somewhere.

  • And--

  • [INAUDIBLE]

  • We going Sizzlers.

  • We going--

  • Also, our friends at Honey Nut Cheerios

  • believe that doing good makes you feel good.

  • And as a gift for you, they want to give you

  • flowers, chocolates--

  • Oh, hey!

  • Thank you.

  • Thank you.

  • This is some aggressive flowers.

  • It's very aggressive flowers.

  • And also, $25,000.

  • Oh!

  • Chocolates and money!

  • We'll be right back.

  • Hi, I'm Andy.

  • Ellen asked me to remind you to subscribe to her channel

  • so you can see more awesome videos,

  • like videos of me getting scared or saying embarrassing things,

  • like ball peen hammer, and also some videos of Ellen

  • and other celebrities, if you're into that sort of thing.

  • Yah!

  • Ah, [BLEEP]!

  • God!

  • [BLEEP]

All right.

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