Jurassic Park Star Sam Neill Says He's 'Ready' To Face Death After Chemo Didn't Work On His Stage 3 Cancer
perezhilton.comSam Neill is a horror icon. But as he’s facing his mortality in real life, he says he is “not remotely afraid.” In an emotional episode of Australian Story on Monday night, the Jurassic Park star updated fans on his battle with cancer.
Sam first revealed publicly back in March that he was diagnosed early last year with non-Hodgkin blood cancer, angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma.
The cancer of the blood is in stage 3 now — and unfortunately it proved resistant to early efforts to fight it off. The beloved New Zealand actor revealed in the special his doctors had tried hitting the cancer hard with chemotherapy.
But after just three months they realized the chemo had stopped working. Devastating. And the photos he and his son shared from that time are… really crushing.
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