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Ronnie Wood was diagnosed with lung cancer three months ago

Ronnie Wood has opened up about his heartbreaking lung cancer diagnosis, revealing that the disease was found during a routine medical with his doctor, Richard Dawood, three months ago.

The Rolling Stones rocker admitted that he feared it was “time to say goodbye”, even adamant that he would not undergo chemotherapy.

Ronnie is ‘lucky’ to be in full health now. Copyright: [Rex]
Ronnie is ‘lucky’ to be in full health now. Copyright: [Rex]

Speaking to the Mail On Sunday’s Event magazine, Ronnie shared: “I’ve had a fight with a touch of lung cancer. There was a week when everything hung in the balance and it could have been curtains, time to say goodbye.

“[Dr Dawood] came back with the news that I had this supernova burning away on my left lung. And to be totally honest, I wasn’t surprised.

“I knew I hadn’t had a chest X-ray since I went into Cottonwood [a rehab clinic in Tucson, Arizona] in 2002.

Ronnie and his wife, Sally, have just welcomed twins. Copyright: [Getty]
Ronnie and his wife, Sally, have just welcomed twins. Copyright: [Getty]

“He asked me what I wanted to do and I said: ‘Just get it out of me.'”

Ronnie and his 39-year-old wife, Sally, who he has 15-month-old twin daughters with, had to wait for a week to find out if the cancer had spread.

He continued: “If that had happened, it would have been all over for me. So there was this one week when I didn’t know what was happening.

“Sally was amazing. It’s only since we’ve got through it that she has been able to tell me how it was the worst seven days of her life.

Ronnie found fame with The Rolling Stones in the 70s. Copyright: [AP]
Ronnie found fame with The Rolling Stones in the 70s. Copyright: [AP]

“I made up my mind that if it had spread, I wasn’t going to go through chemo, I wasn’t going to use that bayonet in my body.

“It’s more I wasn’t going to lose my hair. This hair wasn’t going anywhere. A week later they came back with the news that it hadn’t spread and I said, ‘Let’s get it out now.'”

The operation to remove the tumour was a success and the 70-year-old star admitted that he has been incredibly “lucky”, concluding with: “Someone up there must like me.”

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