In Kylieher new Netflix docuseries, Kylie Minogue reveals that she was diagnosed with a second cancer in 2021 and got away with it in silence, twenty years after the publicized episode which made her a symbol of screening awareness.
In a new docuseries about Kylie Minogue, the pop star reveals that after widely covered cancer two decades ago, she faced a second diagnosis in 2021, and that she “got away with it again”.
A message of hope and a call for testing
If she talks about it today, it is, she says, to encourage others to do regular screenings — this is how her doctors made the diagnosis. “Early detection really helped, and I'm so grateful to be able to say I'm okay today.”she declares. The media coverage of her first cancer had led many women, especially in Australia, to be screened – a phenomenon that the BBC calls “the Kylie effect”.
In 2013, Minogue confided to WECB that she hoped her story of survival could offer hope to those battling the disease. “I realized there was a lot of courage in my story, and in the people around me — my parents, my brother and sister, the rest of my family, my friends, and in myself, of course.”she said. She then received the Courage Award at a charity event for the EIF's Women's Cancer Research Fund. “I am very honored to receive this award, and I can only accept it on behalf of all those who have gone through, or are going through, this kind of ordeal, because you really have to dig deep within yourself. »
