YouTuber Grace Helbig Undergoing Brain Surgery to Remove 2 Tumors

Grace Helbig is shifting her focus to her health.

Four days after the comedian canceled the Canada stops of her Let Me Get This Off My Chest tour due to what she described as “numbness” in her legs, she told fans she had “two things” to update them on, quipping with a laugh, “And they’re both brain tumors.”

“I ended up coming to the emergency room, and they found two tumors in my brain because she missed me. My cancer missed me,” Helbig said in an Oct. 12 Instagram video, referencing her 2023 battle with breast cancer. “So, I’m getting a brain surgery on Wednesday, which is obviously a normal thing to say.”

Despite the difficult news, the 41-year-old—who rose to fame on YouTube, where her @itsGrace channel has over 2.6 million subscribers—is feeling optimistic.

“These are operable brain tumors,” she explained, “and there was a moment in time where it wasn’t certain. Quite scary.”