Diabetes is really scary, y’all. And Nick Jonas is here to remind us how serious it can be.

Nick said that before his diabetes diagnosis at age 13, his body was going through real trauma.

“I was very close to a coma,” he told Cigar Aficionado. “Like a day away, if I hadn’t gone to the hospital.”

Doctors found out his blood sugar was nine times higher than normal and diagnosed him with type 1 diabetes, which means he can’t produce insulin on his own.

“I kept asking my parents — am I going to be okay?” he said. “I was just so concerned that it was going to limit my ability to do all the things I wanted to do. I was very scared — it’s a big life change.”

Thanks for the education, Nick!