As we mentioned earlier, Barbara Walters has booked Patrick Swayze in his first television interview – airing tomorrow night – since the actor revealed last year that he was battling pancreatic cancer.
And during his interview, the 56 year-old admits, “There’s a lot of fear here. There’s a lot of stuff going on. Yeah, I’m scared. Yeah, I’m angry. Yeah, I’m [asking] why me. Yeah, I’m all this stuff. You can bet that I’m going through hell. And I’ve only seen the beginning of it.”
Breaks our heart.
Illness sucks!
Swayze says he also remembers when he first felt sick back in 2007. He was celebrating New Year’s Eve with his wife and says, “I tried to have champagne, and it would be like pouring acid, you know, on an open wound.”
Soon after he said his “indigestion issues got gigantic and constant. And then I started thinking, I’m getting skinny. I dropped about 20 pounds in the blink of an eye. And then when you see it in the mirror, when all of a sudden, you pull your eyes down and the bottom of your eyes go yellow and jaundice sets in — then you know something’s wrong.”
Patrick went to see his doctors for help and they discovered a malignant tumor in his midsection as well as a small mass on his liver. After several days and many more procedures, they discovered he had Stage 4 pancreatic cancer.
As for death, Swayze reveals, “I don’t know what’s on the other side. It tests everything I believe in … that here is something unique in all of us that does not, does not die.”
You gotta have faith, whatever that may be.
Adds Patrick, “What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what’s thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.”
And you will! And you will!
[Image via WENN.]
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