Sam Neill is staying positive after he was diagnosed with stage three blood cancer in 2022. The Jurassic Park actor, 76, first noticed swollen glands in his neck while on the publicity tour for Jurassic World Dominion and later learnt he had angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma. The Kiwi has now recalled the gruelling treatment he endured while filming The Twelve, as he updated fans on how he’s doing two years on.
‘It just meant that every second week it was a case of forget about the weekend because that would be a bit grim,’ he told The Herald Sun . ‘But other than that, it’s great to be alive and working and in beautiful places, like York.’ In October, Sam begged fans to stop worrying about him as he explained he was taking a new drug which was successfully keeping him in remission after chemotherapy previously failed.
However, he also said doctors told him this new drug will eventually stop working. He told ABC’s Australian Story: ‘I’m not in any way frightened of dying. That doesn’t worry me.
It’s never worried me from the beginning, but I would be annoyed. ‘I’d be annoyed because there are things I still want to do. Very irritating, dying.
But I’m not afraid of it.’ After openly discussing his treatment, Sam recorded a video message for his fans telling them not to worry about him. He said: ‘I made a passing remark that the treatment I’m on, which has me in remission, will inevitably fail one day.
‘It’s nothing to worry about. I’m i.
