'Jurassic Park' star Sam Neill says doctor initially thought his blood cancer was 'undetected COVID’
foxnews.com"Jurassic Park" star Sam Neill revealed that his doctor initially misdiagnosed his stage 3 blood cancer as a case of "undetected COVID." The 75-year-old actor, who plays Dr.
Alan Grant in the "Jurassic Park" franchise, shared that he consulted his doctor in Sydney, Australia, after becoming concerned about his swollen glands while on a press tour for the 2022 movie "Jurassic Park: World Dominion." "At the beginning of March 2022 I flew to Los Angeles on matters ‘Jurassic,'" Neill wrote in his new memoir "Did I Ever Tell You This?" via People magazine. "About eight of the cast had an entire three-day weekend doing interviews, photo spreads for Vanity Fair and all of that stuff — publicity. "It was a blast to catch up with my idiot friends and goof around as per.
I noticed the glands seemed to be up in my neck region, but gave it very little thought. My agent had to kill a few photographs because my neck looked lumpy.
Alan Grant doesn't have a lumpy neck, it seems." After returning to Sydney, Neil visited his doctor after becoming concerned when his symptoms weren't improving. "I said, 'These lumps don't seem to be going down, and I don't know why,'" the New Zealand performer recalled. "He assured me that my lumpy glands were due to undetected COVID, and they'd be hanging around for a little while.
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