Ronnie gets all-clear

Ronnie Wood appeared on Friday’s Late Late Show in Ireland to perform a duet of his cover of the Elvis Presley hit Blue Christmas with Andrea Corr with all proceeds from sales of the new song going to Our Lady’s Hospice in Dublin.

Andrea paid tribute to the work being done by Our Lady’s Hospice and Ronnie spoke about how he had been given his fourth all-clear from cancer just two days ago.

“I had lung cancer in 2017 and I said, when can you get it out?’ and they said what are you doing next Wednesday?’, and I said, `too late for me’ so we did it on the Monday, so we got that out. “Throughout it all I maintained a real positive attitude and I thought if I can help anyone who is suffering from the same thing.

“Because sure enough when I had recovered from the lung cancer, I was invaded by the worst kind of cancer. It’s called small-cell and it’s all across the chest and it hides in the brain, so I had to have really heavy chemo and radiation and they said they’d given me a year’s worth of medication in three weeks and my body just jumped to defence.

“I have had my fourth all-clear the day before yesterday so anybody who knows anybody who has cancer, tell them to be positive and fight it. You have to go up another gear and fight it.”

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