Val Kilmer was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2015 and battled it for two years.
Thankfully, today he is cancer-free.
But in a recently released memoir, I’m Your Huckleberry, he reveals that if not for his ex-girlfriend, Cher, helping him get through it, his experience would have been much worse.
While their romantic relationship did not exactly go the distance, their friendship eventually became monumental during an extremely difficult time in Val's life.
He battled with cancer for two years before finally being declared cancer-free. However, he has never publicly opened up about it.
Until now!
Revealing that it was his ex-girlfriend, Cher, who helped him get through it.
"I prayed immediately, then called 911."
He explained that despite the seriousness of the situation, Cher was the only one who could still make him laugh.
"Only in Hollywood, right?," he added.
Side note: His memoir seems so well-written and perfectly descriptive.
I was able to imagine this story so vividly.
"Here we were, joking about beauty and desire, while I looked like a stunt man from Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs".
"And, yes, while my life seemed to be in mortal danger," he wrote.
"We laughed out loud before they finished with my vitals and shut me up with an oxygen mask.”
After undergoing a tracheotomy and two years of chemotherapy and radiation, he was healed.
He explained that he does voice exercises every day.
“The fact that my impeded speech could spell the end of my career only served to motivate me,” he wrote.
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