The Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Wood was ready “to say goodbye” to his young family after he was diagnosed with lung cancer, he revealed last night, Mirror has reported.
The 70-year-old rocker – who has been with the band since the mid-Seventies – told how the diagnosis, which he has kept secret until now, led to one the darkest period of his life. The guitar-slinging star explained how he came to make the agonising decision not to have chemotherapy, revealing it his decision hinged on him not wanting to lose his trademark thick hair.
Ronnie – who quit smoking a week before his one-year-old twins Gracie and Alice were born – was diagnosed three months ago during a routine medical with the band’s doctor Richard Dawood.
On this occasion, Dawood asked Ron if he could “go deeper” and check the former Faces star’s heart, lungs and blood. ‘I said go for it,’ he recalled.
