Kylie Minogue has spoken candidly about her breast cancer battle, after being diagnosed with the disease back in 2005 at the age of 36.
In a candid new chat with CBS News, the Spinning Around hitmaker, 55, became emotional as she spoke about beating the disease – and just how traumatic it was for her to go through.
“It’s trauma, and any trauma resides within you,” Minogue said during the interview.
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“The experience of a cancer diagnosis will live in me. It was difficult. It was also amazing.”
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By “amazing”, Minogue said she was touched by the love around her at the time and what the human body can do.
“Amazing in that you are very aware of your body, of the love that’s around you, of your capability, all sorts of things,” she said.
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She added that she ”sings to process” everything in her life.
Minogue previously spoke about her cancer battle and said that it ruined her chances of ever being able to have children.
“I was 36 when I had my diagnosis (breast cancer). Realistically, you’re getting to the late side of things,” she previously told The Times.
While at the time it wasn’t in her immediate plans to have kids, Minogue admitted that “it changed everything”.
“I don’t want to dwell on it, obviously, but I wonder what that would have been like. Everyone will say there are options, but I don’t know.”
She added at the time: “I’m 50 now, and I’m more at ease with my life. I can’t say there are no regrets, but it would be very hard for me to move on if I classed that as a regret, so I just have to be as philosophical about it as I can. You’ve got to accept where you are and get on with it.”
She previously added to People about her cancer diagnosis: “It’s like the earth had kind of slipped off its axis. You see everything differently.”
Minogue was declared cancer-free in February 2006 after successful chemotherapy.
