Kylie Minogue has reflected on her 2005 breast cancer diagnosis in a new interview, describing it as an ongoing experience
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The singer was declared cancer-free in 2006, but told the BBC of her journey, "It's very deep and extended and it's still with me today in many ways"
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Kylie opens up about her diagnosis in her new Netflix docuseries Kylie, streaming May 20
Kylie Minogueis reflecting on her cancer journey — two decades on.
In a new interview withBBC London, published on Tuesday, May 19, the Australian singer, 57, who wasdiagnosed with breast cancerin 2005, shared that her experience with the disease has never left her.
"Where do I even start? Shock," the musician told the outlet about getting her diagnosis. "You're trying to understand something you've never thought about before. It's a crash course.”
“It's very deep and extended and it's still with me today in many ways," Minogue added.
The “All the Lovers” hitmaker also opens up about her cancer journey in her new Netflix docuseriesKylie(streaming May 20).
“I felt removed from my body,” Minogue says in the emotional trailer. “I was so scared of what was ahead of me.”
“We didn’t know if she was ever going to be well again,” her sister Dannii Minogue adds.
In December 2023, Kylie, who was declared cancer-free in 2006, described her cancer journey as “trauma” in an interview withCBS News.
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"It's trauma, and any trauma resides within you," Kylie said. "The experience of a cancer diagnosis will live in me. It was difficult. It was also amazing."
"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 added.
The star went on to share that her music helped her to come to terms with what she was going through.
"I sing to process everything, I think. I write to process. I perform to process. And sometimes I think I live to perform," she said.
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She alsotold PEOPLEin 2020 how her cancer changed her life and perspective.
"It's like the earth had kind of slipped off its axis. You see everything differently," Minogue recalled.
"I remember having had my diagnosis, but the world didn't know,” she said. “I was with my brother and my boyfriend at the time — we were all in a daze and went to a cafe. The server at the cafe was like, 'Hey, how are you today?' We just kind of robotically said, 'Good, thanks,' and in that moment I just thought, you really don't know what anyone is going through. I thought that same person by tomorrow is going to see the news and say, 'Oh my God, she was here yesterday, and we didn't know.' "
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