Sam Neill, 76, shares defiant cancer health update after chemo treatment fails
Original Jurassic Park star Sam Neill has shared a heartbreaking update about his battle with cancer, but the Hollywood actor is staying defiant.
Sam Neill shares health update on Lorraine
Sam Neill has said he’s not afraid of dying as he continues his fight against stage-three blood cancer.
He revealed that chemotherapy has sadly failed and left him in a “fight for life”.
The Jurassic Park star is currently using an experimental drug called angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma to ward off cancer, which doctors have warned will one day stop working.
Despite this, Neill, 76, says he’s “prepared for” the outcome.
“I'm not in any way frightened of dying,” he shared. “That doesn't worry me.
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“It's never worried me from the beginning, but I would be annoyed.”
Neill opened up about his condition in an interview with Australian Story on ABC, and was in good spirits as he joked about death being “irritating”.
“I'd be annoyed because there are things I still want to do,” he admitted.
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“Very irritating, dying. But I'm not afraid of it.”
The actor also admitted he’s struggled to look at himself in the mirror after losing his signature salt-and-pepper beard and locks during chemotherapy.
“There were times in the last year where I had to look at myself in the mirror and I wasn't a pretty sight,” he said. “I was stripped of any kind of dignity.”
Neill found out he had cancer last year during his first trip back to his native New Zealand in two years due to the Covid-19 lockdowns.
His son, Tim, said during the interview: “When he hung the phone up and we sat down, and we had a little bit of a cry together. It was supposed to be a happy day. He didn't get to stay.”
“I was in really a fight for my life,” Tim’s famous father continued. “And everything was a new world and a rather alarming world.
“I had three or four months of reasonably conventional chemotherapies which are, brutal.”