Four years after successfully battling lung cancer, Ronnie Wood, one of the two Rolling Stones guitarists along with Keith Richards and Mick Jagger's accomplice since 1975, revealed to The
Sun
that he had to fight lung cancer. the skin during the first confinement in 2020.
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In a short interview granted to our colleagues from across the Channel, the rocker returned to his battles against the disease:
“I had to fight against two different forms of cancer.
In 2017, it was the lung that was affected and last year, it was carcinoma, a kind of skin cancer, that I had to fight.
Today, doctors are optimistic. ”
Music and painting as an outlet
These two alerts do not seem to have affected the morale of Ronnie Wood, who has been a member of the Indomitable Rolling Stones since 1975. Almost galvanized by his two victories in the face of cancer, he immediately got back to work on a new solo album and no 'never forgetting his second passion, painting, sat down again in front of his easel in order to find himself fully as he suggested to the
Sun
: "
Art allows me to express myself and to lose myself a little in the clouds. .
"
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These two illnesses, almost successive, made him fatalistic and at the same time more serene in the face of his fate. His confidences shed light on Ronnie Wood's new state of mind:
“I went through hard times but during my convalescence, I took the philosophical side of letting go. It is a magical attitude that allows you to surrender to a higher power. What must happen will happen. It's a bit outside of me. I stay positive, I fight but fate depends on this higher force. "
The strength to fight cancer Ronnie Wood also found it in his wife Sally Humpreys, a theater director, and his twin daughters, Gracie and Alice, now 4 years old: “
My daughters are a true blessing.
Gracie is the reincarnation of my mother.
She has her calm character, her way of moving, of living.
As for Alice, she is hyperactive.
She runs all the time and Gracie, meanwhile, watches her quietly, sitting.
It is a pleasure to be with them.
"
Ronnie Wood performing live at 100 club London in 2011