Jurassic Park’s Sam Neill Revealed He Will Undergo Chemotherapy for Life After Beating Stage 3 Blood Cancer: ‘Pleased to Be Alive’

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Jurassic Park star Sam Neill revealed he must follow a lifelong chemotherapy treatment after being diagnosed — and beating — stage 3 blood cancer.The New Zealand native, 75, detailed being diagnosed with the disease and its lasting effects in his new memoir, Did I Ever Tell You This?

In an excerpt from the book — which will hit shelves on Tuesday, March 21 — the Peaky Blinders alum writes, “The thing is, I’m crook.

Possibly dying. I may have to speed this up.”In order to view the video, please allow Manage CookiesAhead of its release, Neill confessed he didn’t initially set out to write the memoir as a reflection of his condition.“I never had any intention to write a book,” he admitted in an interview with The Guardian on Friday, March 17. “But as I went on and kept writing, I realized it was actually sort of giving me a reason to live and I would go to bed thinking, ‘I’ll write about that tomorrow … that will entertain me.’ And so it was a lifesaver, really, because I couldn’t have gone through that with nothing to do, you know.”Neill shared that he first started experiencing symptoms while promoting Jurassic World Dominion in March 2022.

After getting his swollen glands checked, he was diagnosed with angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma. Cancer Research UK defines the condition as a rare type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma that affects blood cells which are also known as T cells.After his diagnosis, Neill received chemotherapy which didn’t go as planned.