Rolling Stones’ guitarist Ronnie Wood has spoken out about his successful surgery that removed a cancerous lesion in his lung. “There was a week when everything hung in the balance and it could have been curtains – time to say goodbye,” he told Event. “You never know what is going to happen.”
Wood said he wasn’t surprised when he found out about the cancer in his lungs, referencing his decades of cigarette smoking and lack of medical supervision in the past. The lesion was discovered during a mandatory physical ahead of the Rolling Stones’ European Tour, which begins next month. The guitarist quit smoking last year after birth of his twin daughters.
Wood was still able to keep his sense of humor during this dark time, citing his reason for not wanting to do chemotherapy, ““I wasn’t going to lose my hair,” he said. “This hair wasn’t going anywhere.”
-Mark Goodwin, Music Correspondent
