Brian Kennedy has revealed he is battling cancer.
The Belfast singer, 49, has admitted he was diagnoised with cancer in July, and now he is undergoing radiation therapy after a rectal tumour was found.
“I got this cancer for a reason and it is to say to me people get tested,” he told Matt Cooper on Today FM.
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The singer added that he knew something was wrong when “something was out of kilter with me”.
“I said to him [the GP], ‘Look would you mind if we take this a bit further, I just want to know for peace of mind’. So he booked me a colonoscopy,” he explained.
“The next thing I know I was coming around on the bed and he says to me, ‘Brian, you’ve got a tumour in your rectum’.
“Honestly, I was kind of glad. I wasn’t sitting in a room having a cup of tea, thinking everything was fine.
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“The staff who were there to say you’re fine all went away and these new people arrived.
“I nearly died. Lying on that bed, coming around and like, ‘What? I have a tumour?'”
Brian said his treatment programme is five weeks of radiation and chemo.
