
The singer's diagnoses came when he was 13 years old after one of his older brothers noticed his symptoms which included an unquenchable thirst for sugary sodas paired with some drastic weight loss.
He told Cigar Aficionado last month that he was like a day awayfrom going into a coma if he hadn't been taken to the hospital for doctors to catch the illness, reported amagazine.
Those with Type 1 diabetes create very little or no insulin, requiring medication. Jonas now uses an insulin pump, and previously said that when he was first diagnosed, he was fearful of not being able to continue life as he had been living it.
"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".