Sam Neill‘s ex girlfriend, journalist Laura Tingle, is explaining how he was doing in his final weeks of life.
If you didn’t see the news, Sam died at the age of 78 on Monday (July 13) in Sydney, Australia. Laura and Sam dated from around 2018 to 2021.
Back in April, Sam revealed that he was cancer-free after undergoing a special treatment. He was diagnosed with stage three blood cancer in March 2022.
Laura, however, said the cancer had taken a toll on his body.
“The bottom line is he’d been fighting various forms of cancer for at least the last five years intensively,” she shared on ABC Radio Sydney’s Sydney Mornings show. “That takes a toll on anybody’s body. He’d had a lot of chemo and a lot of immunotherapy. Thankfully, it had finally cleared him of the blood cancer that he had. But that left him pretty compromised in terms of his immune system, and I think his poor old body sort of got a bit exhausted.”
She added, “He’s been pretty sick for the last couple of weeks, and everybody who loved him has been willing him on from near and far, but I think it was just a bit too much to recover from one more time.”
If you did not see, Sam posted his final public photo just one month prior to his death.
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