Kylie Minogue talks about her breast cancer
(Telegraph)
Updated: 2006-07-04 14:28
With a pixie-styled cropped haircut and a rueful smile, Kylie
Minogue, the Australian singer, has spoken for the first time about the shock of
being told she had breast cancer.
She said: "The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and
dad were with me. Then we all fell to pieces."
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A tearful Kylie
during her first
interview since undergoing
cancer
treatment
| The singer's immediate
thought, she said, was to fly away. "I was saying, 'No dad, I'm getting on a
plane'. He said, 'No, you're not getting on a plane. You'll sit down'."
The former Neighbours actress was interviewed by Cat Deeley for
Sky television. The interview will be broadcast on July 16 along with extracts
from a video diary, which Minogue kept of her year-long treatment, during which
she endured a partial mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
Minogue, 38, in an excerpt from the interview, looked the
confident and perky star of old, a far cry from the frightened, shuffling figure
seen entering the apartment of her fiancé, Olivier Martinez, the French actor,
during chemotherapy.
In another interview with an Australian newspaper, she spoke of
"the long, hard road" to conquering her illness. She said she was anxious "to
get back into the swing of things".
She is in "full remission", according to her sister Dannii and the
world tour she had to cut short in May last year is scheduled for November,
along with a new album being recorded in Paris.
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