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Zara Woodcock & Lana Adkin

Jurassic Park's Sam Neill speaks about 'dark moments' as he shares stage 3 cancer diagnosis

Jurassic Park actor Sam Neill has spoken out on his treatment for stage-three blood cancer. The actor, from New Zealand, is currently going through treatment after his diagnosis of angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma last year.

Neill is now cancer-free but revealed the "dark moments" that he went through in the last year. He shared the news as he spoke about his book named Did I Ever Tell You This?

As reported by the Mirror, he wrote in the first chapter of his new book: "The thing is, I’m crook. Possibly dying. I may have to speed this up."

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Too keep busy whilst undergoing treatment for cancer Sam explained how he wrote about his life, career and achievements.

Speaking to The Guardian, he explained: "I never had any intention to write a book. But as I went on and kept writing, I realised it was actually sort of giving me a reason to live and I would go to bed thinking, ‘I’ll write about that tomorrow … that will entertain me.’

"And so it was a lifesaver really, because I couldn’t have gone through that with nothing to do, you know."

Last year during the Jurassic World Dominion publicity events Sam began to get swollen glands. He then went on to have chemotherapy but it began to fail, so he went on a new chemotherapy drug which he will be taking every month for the rest of his life.

He said: "Those dark moments throw the light into sharp relief, you know, and have made me grateful for every day and immensely grateful for all my friends. Just pleased to be alive.”

The 75-year-old was born in Northern Ireland and when he was young he moved to New Zealand. The actor's first ever film was The City of No, a New Zealand television movie which was released in1971. His breakthrough performance was in the film Sleeping Dogs in 1977.

He is known for his role as Dr Alan Grant in Jurassic Park in 1993.

Sam added to The Guardian that he isn't "afraid to die" but "it would annoy me".

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