Michael Bublé recalls near-death experience after encountering polar bears on the beach

Michael Bublé has detailed a life-threatening encounter with, surprisingly, a polar bear.

On a recent appearance on the Kelly Clarkson Show, the singer shared how he and fellow Canadian actor Barry Pepper had been drinking at a wrap party for a film they both starred in when they had the bright idea to go down to the beach.

"I think, in the moment, we're like, 'You know what we should do? We should like race down the beach,'" the singer shared. "And so me and him and another guy came running down this beach."

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But as they ran gleefully towards the water, they were interrupted by the loud and desperate shouting of a local.

"A guy that lived there just started swearing, literally swearing at us and just screaming – I mean screaming bloody murder," recalled Bublé.

"We didn't realise we were running to our certain death....Because there were polar bears all down the beach.

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"And yes, they're the most aggressive – but God, they're so cuddly," he said.

"Sometimes I wonder about that, how close I was to being like a little polar bear lunch."

Clarkson responded, "Who would've thought there were just polar bears – nobody ever hears that. 'Oh, there's polar bears hanging on the beach.' It just doesn't happen."

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The singer recently made an appearance on The Diary of a CEO podcast, where he spoke about his son Noah's experience with cancer.

''My son's cancer diagnosis rocked my world. It pulled the curtain from over my eyes," Bublé said.

''That was a sledgehammer to my reality, I will never be carefree again in my life, and that's OK."

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Noah, now 10, was just three years old when he was diagnosed with hepatoblastoma back in 2016. He has now fully recovered.

Bublé said the diagnosis helped him realise his priorities as he was so focused on his career.

''When it actually happened, I was going through a crisis. I don't think I had my priorities straight. My family was always a love, I don't think I was a terrible guy, but it was blinders – career, ambition, how do I become the baddest, biggest, best? More ego, more power," Bublé explained.

''It's like life was lived with like a curtain in front of me, like a filter and the moment that they said 'this is what's happening', that reality hit me – filter gone, in a moment."