Michael Flatley opens up about his cancer battle

Riverdance star Michael Flatley has said that his cancer diagnosis made him"quickly realise that you come into this world on your own and you leave on your own."

"Getting the news that you have cancer is tough, it’s not easy to take in but I’m married to the greatest girl in the world who looks after me and believe in me and stood beside me."It was all fine until I got on the trolley and the nurses went to get the anaesthesia and when you’re lying on that gurney in that freezing cold hallway staring up at that white ceiling, you quickly realise that you come into this world on your own and you leave on your own.

Flatley, who has just launched his new whiskey, Flatley Whiskey, also recalled the very first performance of Riverdance at the Eurovision Song Contest in April 1994 at The Point in Dublin. "No one will know how hard we worked for that moment. I suppose it’s easy when you look back at that moment and it was great but the amount of hours and drilling and practise it took to get to that level . . . I was like a loaded slingshot; I couldn’t wait to get out on that stage.— The Late Late Show May 10, 2024

"God rest her soul. After that performance, I came walking down the corridor to what I guess was the green room and my mother was there and she was crying," he recalled.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

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