Kylie Minogue has told how her second cancer diagnosis in 2021 left her a “shell of a person” and that she struggled to find the “right time” to tell her fans.
The Australian singer, known for Can’t Get You Out Of My Head and Spinning Around, opened up about her second diagnosis in her new three-part Netflix series, titled Kylie.
Minogue, 57, was previously diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer in May 2005, aged 36, and underwent a lumpectomy and chemotherapy in Paris.
Coverage of her diagnosis led to an unprecedented increase in bookings for mammograms, referred to as the “Kylie effect”.
Nearly two decades after she received the all-clear, the star opened up about her second, more private, battle with cancer, and reassured fans that she had “got through it again, and all is well”.
“My second cancer diagnosis was in early 2021,” the performer said. “I was able to keep that to myself and go through that year not like the first time.
“(I’ve) been trying to find the right time to say it. I don’t feel obliged to tell the world, and actually, I just couldn’t at the time, because I was just a shell of a person. I didn’t want to leave the house again at one point.”
Minogue released her hit comeback single Padam Padam in 2023, which went on to win the Grammy Award for Best Pop Dance Recording.
She added: “Padam Padam opened so many doors for me, but on the inside I knew that cancer wasn’t just a blip in my life.”
Appearing emotional, Minogue revealed that her song Story, from her 2023 album, Tension, helped her mark that time by writing “something that said what I wanted to say”.
She is later seen singing part of the song: “I had a secret that I kept to myself, yeah, I had a one-way ticket that was goin’ nowhere.”
