2023-03-20 12:44:27
Sam Neill said he was ” alive and in remission following his battle with blood cancer last year.
Sam Neill has eased his fans’ worries regarding his health, following news that the Jurassic Park actor had battled stage 3 blood cancer last year.
The actor revealed his cancer diagnosis in his forthcoming memoir (Did I Ever Tell You This?), as well as in a recent interview he gave while promoting the book. Although Neill added that his cancer was in remission, many internet headlines focused on his previously unreported battle with cancer, which compelled him to take to Instagram over the weekend. end to reaffirm that he was not dying.
« My news seems to be all over the news right now, and it’s sort of “Cancer! Cancer ! Cancer !”said Neill. Which is a little tiring because, as you can see, I’m alive and healthy, and I’ve been in remission for eight months, which is very nice. I’m alive, healthy and going to work. I am very happy to return to work. »
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Neill added: I just wish the title wasn’t so much “that thing”, because the main thing is that I wrote this book, which is called Did I Ever Tell You This? It mentions cancer, because that’s the context in which I wrote it. But I didn’t really intend to write a book, I needed something to do during my treatment, and I used to go to work, and suddenly I mightn’t go anymore. . That’s why I wrote this book. »
Neill was diagnosed with angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma following suffering from swollen glands while promoting Jurassic World : Dominion in March 2022. As Neill explained to the Guardian in the interview that launched cancer headlines in other media, he wrote his memoir because it gave him something to do during his treatment. ” I never intended to write a booksaid Neill. But as I wrote, I realized that it kind of gave me a reason to live, and I went to bed thinking, “I’ll write regarding this tomorrow…it’ll entertain me.” It saved my life, because I might not have gone through this ordeal without doing anything. »
Although Neill told the Guardian that he was in remission, he expressed a fatalistic view, stating, ” I’m not afraid to die, but it would bother me. Because I really wish I was a decade or two older, you know… But what regarding dying? I mightn’t care less. »
Daniel Kreps
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