Delta Goodrem reflects on her harrowing battle with cancer after being diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma at just 18: ‘I was a girl who had to fight for her life’
Delta Goodrem looks back on her courageous battle with cancer 20 years later.
The Australian singer was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma on July 8, 2003, when she was just 18 years old.
In a recent interview, Delta opened up about the uphill battle he faced as a teenager.
“I was a girl with doctors who explained to me that I had to fight for my life,” she told the outlet. daily telegraph.
The same week that Delta, now 38, received his diagnosis, his debut album, Innocent Eyes, topped the music charts.
Delta Goodrem looks back on her courageous battle with cancer 20 years later. In the photo in February
“I was diagnosed with cancer the same week I debuted worldwide,” he added.
I’m so thankful that 20 years later we’re here making music. It is a good moment.
The Born to Try hitmaker was unable to tour her debut album due to undergoing treatment for her cancer.
The Australian singer was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma on July 8, 2003, when she was just 18 years old. Pictured in 2003
In a recent interview, Delta opened up about the uphill battle he faced as a teenager.
She said she was excited to finally be able to tour the Innocent Eyes album and perform songs ‘in that chapter’ that fans never heard live.
“That record stayed at number one for eight months and I never got to play some of these songs live. This is a full circle moment.
Delta has opened up about her. fight cancer and how it affected his life on numerous occasions in the past.
In a moving interview with the WHO magazine in 2020, he said of the diagnosis: “It was like a bomb went off.”
“I remember when I was first told I had cancer, my body went into shock and I shook uncontrollably for the next 24 hours,” Delta added.
Delta lost her hair due to chemotherapy and called the changes in her physical appearance “confronting.”
He spent a year of cancer treatment.
This included eight months of chemotherapy and two months of radiotherapy.
“It was very difficult to feel beautiful in an outward sense: my skin color had a green tint, there were a lot of steroid effects, and it was difficult to feel good,” Delta said.
After beating cancer, Delta said her health remains her priority.
The Born to Try hitmaker was unable to tour her debut album due to undergoing treatment for her cancer. Pictured in 2003
