Slade legend Noddy Holder was told he had just six months to live in 2018 after being diagnosed with oesophageal cancer. But he made a good recovery and his outlook is still positive
Pop king Noddy Holder was resigned to dying after he was diagnosed with cancer but reckons his positive mentality has seen him through.
The Slade star, 79, was told he had just six months to live back in 2018 after being diagnosed with oesophageal cancer. He left his wife Suzan to tell their grown-up children because he was making inappropriate jokes about his imminent demise.
But he made a good recovery, partly due to his “mental approach”, with his outlook still positive seven years on. He said that, even though their kids were “all grown up” when he found out, he “had to let Suzan break the news to them”.
The Cum on Feel the Noize singer said: “They’d only given me six months to live and I knew I’d start cracking jokes, which probably wasn’t the best way to handle it: ‘Don’t bother getting me a birthday card this year!’
“I’m not good at taking things too seriously. I started the chemo but figured that if my number was up, there wasn’t much I could do about it.”
He added: “With cancer you never get the ‘all clear’ I still see my consultant every few months – but a year or so after the diagnosis things seemed to be going well, and here we are seven years down the road. I’ve been told my mental approach was a big part of that. I don’t get too depressed, try to keep calm and carry on as normal.
“But it was Suzan who helped me do that. Although privately she went to hell and back, she was always at my side, fighting, keeping me positive. I might be a cocky f***er, but I’m glad I had her with me.”
The rocker previously revealed his brush with cancer has inspired him to live in a different way. He said: “It’s certainly changed me as a performer, my breathing’s not so solid as it used to be back in the day, because of the type of cancer that I had.”
The hitmaker was given a revolutionary new drug which helped him fight cancer and it took him a while to get back an “even keel” after undergoing the gruelling experimental treatment.
He said: “It was touch and go. I lost all my hair. My weight was down to about eight stone – so every cloud. I’ve just had a scan last week and everything’s on an even keel at the moment, so I hope it carries on that way. I’m fit, fit, fit … but I’m fit for nothing.”
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
