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Kylie Minogueis reflecting on her “difficult” cancer journey.
The Australian pop icon — who wasdiagnosed with breast cancerin 2005 — spoke toCBS Newsabout surviving the disease, and how she’s still trying to come to terms with her cancer battle nearly 20 years later.
“It’s trauma, and any trauma resides within you,” Minogue, 55, told the outlet. “The experience of a cancer diagnosis will live in me. It was difficult. It was also amazing.”
“Amazing in that you are very aware of your body, of the love that’s around you, of your capability, all sorts of things,” she added.
Although she was declared cancer free in 2006, Minogue explained that she’s still processing the experience, which she does through her music.
“I sing to process everything, I think. I write to process. I perform to process. And sometimes I think I live to perform,” she said, adding that it’s “mind-boggling” her career is still going strong after 35 years.
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Back in 2020, Minogue opened up to PEOPLE about how her harrowing cancer journey changed her life.
“It’s like the earth had kind of slipped off its axis. You see everything differently,” Minogue recalled.
“It’s a huge change, and it is before and after,” Minogue told PEOPLE at the time. “Now with what’s happening in the world, there’s a lot of people talking about a new normal, but I think after cancer or any other big, life-changing incident or illness, you have to adapt.”
source: people.com
