Country Singer Reveals Health Scare Over 'Thick Neck' Condition

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Cohen / Getty Images An award-winning country singer said his “thick neck” sparked worried comments from fans, eventually prompting him to seek medical testing.

On Wednesday, Justin Moore opened up about the health scare on fellow country artist Tracy Lawrence’s TL’s Road House podcast.

“I’ve had some health issues.

Nothing life-threatening, thankfully,” the 42-year-old said.

“I’m sure people think, ‘Golly, he’s been eating good.’” He then lifted his head and squeezed the area under his chin, saying that he had thought he had cancer, or a lipoma , a non-cancerous tumor.

“But it’s just fat,” he said.

“It’s benign, thank God.” When Moore began to worry about his health, he visited a doctor.

After undergoing an MRI, the “If Heaven Wasn’t So Far Away” singer learned that he did not have cancer.

Still, his mind took him to “the worst possible places,” he said.

His wife, Kate Moore, helped his anxieties subside.

“My wife looked at me, she goes, ‘If you just have a fat neck and you’re here for the next 50 years, then shut up and stop complaining.’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah, I’ve never sold records because of my looks in the first place,’” he joked.

The couple has been married since 2007 and shares four children: Ella, 16; Kennedy, 14; Rebecca, 12, and South, 9.

Moore said the doctors told him it would be “very, very difficult to do surgery,” and that surgery might affect his singing and speaking voice.