months: "I couldn't deal with more than one person at a time or with multitasking and I cried easily." Watson was readmitted to hospital in Manchester for tests on 6 October 2006 after complaining of dizziness, headaches and blurred vision. He has been reported as saying, "It [his first pituitary tumour] changed my priorities. Made me appreciate the importance of relationships, of friends and family and, most of all, my two daughters. My fear for them if I died—that was the worst part. I adore them". Second tumour While in the middle of the studio recording of his album Outside In on 24 October 2007 Watson suddenly became incapacitated, with multiple symptoms including a dramatic deterioration of vision. An MRI scan showed he had a regrowth of his tumour with bleeding into his brain. He underwent emergency surgery to remove the tumour at the Alexandra Hospital in Cheadle, Greater Manchester, and was for a while in a critical condition in the hospital's Intensive Therapy Unit. Watson was discharged from hospital on 31 October. Watson later underwent an extensive rehabilitation programme including radiotherapy at the Christie Hospital in Manchester. Once Watson finished radiotherapy in 2008 he decided to embark on a return to music. He soon found that his treatment had given him not just a fresh outlook on the world, but a new, deeper, richer voice. "The tumour could have been growing for 10–15 years in my nasal cavity, so when I had cut it out I went from a V8 to a V12!" Discography Studio albums The Voice (2000) Encore (2001) Reprise (2002) Amore Musica (2004) That's Life (2007) Outside In (2007) People Get Ready (2008) La Voce (2010) Anthems – Music To Inspire A Nation (2012) Only One Man (2013) True Stories (2016) In Harmony (2018) - with Aled Jones Back in Harmony (2019) - with Aled Jones Christmas with Aled and Russell (2022) - with Aled Jones Published works References External links Russell Watson at ClassicalX (archive) 20th-century English male singers 20th-century English singers 20th-century English opera singers 21st-century English male singers 21st-century English singers 21st-century English opera singers Decca Records artists English operatic tenors I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (British TV series) participants Living people Music based on Star Trek Music in Salford Musicians from Manchester Opera crossover singers People from Salford Singers from Manchester Singing talent show winners Star Trek: Enterprise Year of