More details from Barbara Walters’ interview with Patrick Swayze are emerging.
Sadly, the actor admits he probably only has 2 years to live: “I’d say five years is pretty wishful thinking. Two years seems likely if you’re going to believe statistics. I want to last until they find a cure, which means I’d better get a fire under it.”
Patrick stars in the new A&E drama, The Beast, which he filmed after his pancreatic cancer diagnosis. Of the 12-hour days he was required to put in for work, mostly outside in Chicago’s cold, Swayze said, “I think everybody thought I was out of my mind, you know, thinking I’m gonna pull off a TV show.”
He only missed a day and a half of work during the five months of filming!
And, given what he’s going through, he did his work pain-killer free: “When you’re shooting you can’t do drugs. I can’t do Hydrocodone or Vicodin or these kinds of things that take the edge off of it, ’cause it takes the edge off of your brain.”
We hope he stops smoking AND that a cure is found!
[Image via WENN.]
-
Categories
