Ronnie Wood has revealed that he was diagnosed with lung cancer three months ago.
The 70-year-old rocker underwent an emergency operation, after his doctor made the discovery during a health test ahead of the upcoming Rolling Stones tour.
Speaking to The Mail On Sunday’s Event magazine, Ronnie revealed, “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. You never know what is going to happen.”
The star gave up smoking a year ago, before his wife Sally Humphrey gave birth to their twin daughters Gracie Jane and Alice Rose.
Ronnie’s diagnosis was revealed after his doctor asked if he would like to “go deeper” and have his heart, lungs and blood checked.
“Then he 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.”
Ronnie told the doctor, “Just get it out of me.”
He underwent a series of tests, which concluded that if it spread to his lymph nodes “it would have been all over for me.”
“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.”
A week later “they came back with the news that it hadn’t spread and I said, ‘Let’s get it out now’. Just before I closed my eyes for the operation I looked at the doctor and said, ‘Let battle commence’.”
