Grammy Award-winning singer Pink is now opening up about her battle with coronavirus, the deadly pandemic that both she and her 3 year-old son Jameson were able to overcome last month.

Pink discussed her and Jameson’s “physically and emotionally challenging” battle with the virus in a new essay written for NBC News.

Battling COVID-19 along with my three-year-old son was the most physically and emotionally challenging experience I have gone through as a mother,” wrote Pink, 40. “Weeks after receiving our test results, my son was still ill and feverish. It was a terrifying time, not knowing what might come next.”

“But our story is not unique; there are mothers all over America, and the world, that are facing this same uncertainty every single day,” she added. “Not every family, especially those living on reservations, or in refugee camps, slums, or favelas, are able to practice social distancing. In many parts of the world it can take hours just to access water, and even then, soap may be an impossible luxury.”

Pink shocked the world in early April when she revealed that she and her son had tested positive for COVID-19. She later revealed that she would be donating $1 million to COVID-19 relief, according to Daily Mail.

“This Mother’s Day, as you hold your babies tight, I encourage you to think about all the mamas around the world who still need our help,” she concluded her essay.

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Two weeks ago my three-year old son, Jameson, and I are were showing symptoms of COVID-19. Fortunately, our primary care physician had access to tests and I tested positive. My family was already sheltering at home and we continued to do so for the last two weeks following the instruction of our doctor. Just a few days ago we were re-tested and are now thankfully negative. It is an absolute travesty and failure of our government to not make testing more widely accessible. This illness is serious and real. People need to know that the illness affects the young and old, healthy and unhealthy, rich and poor, and we must make testing free and more widely accessible to protect our children, our families, our friends and our communities. In an effort to support the healthcare professionals who are battling on the frontlines every day, I am donating $500,000 to the Temple University Hospital Emergency Fund in Philadelphia in honor of my mother, Judy Moore, who worked there for 18 years in the Cardiomyopathy and Heart Transplant Center. Additionally, I am donating $500,000 to the City of Los Angeles Mayor’s Emergency COVID-19 Crisis Fund. THANK YOU to all of our healthcare professionals and everyone in the world who are working so hard to protect our loved ones. You are our heroes! These next two weeks are crucial: please stay home. Please. Stay. Home.❤️

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This comes after Pink opened up about the “terrifying” asthma attack she suffered while battling coronavirus.

“It was terrifying at one point,” Pink said. “I’ve had really, really bad asthma to the point where sometimes I end up in the hospital. I woke up in the middle of the night and I couldn’t breathe. I needed my nebulizer for the first time in 30 years. I couldn’t function without it. That’s when I started to get really scared.”

Pink went on to say that things got so bad that she wasn’t sure if she would survive.

“Wow, all this crazy stuff I did, and this is it?” the singer remembered thinking. “This is the way it ends?

“This is the scariest thing I’ve ever been through in my whole life,” she added as she began to cry.

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