British musician and actor Martin Kemp has shared his prediction he has just 10 years left to live after battling two brain tumours in his 30s.
The 62-year-old Spandau Ballet bassist discussed the topic with his son Roman Kemp on the first episode of their podcast FFS! My Dad is Martin Kemp titled Death.
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His son Roman, 31, asked his father how long he believes he has left, with Kemp stating, “10 years”.
“No! Don’t joke, don’t joke,” his audibly shocked son said.
“I don’t know how long I’ve got left, but I think, since I was the age of 34 when I went through that brain tumour scare, I spent two years of my life thinking I was going to die,” he recalled.
“I think after that, everything else … has been a bonus.”
The Spandau Ballet bassist was diagnosed with the tumours in the 1990s and underwent radiotherapy and surgery.
The larger one was just below his skull, but the other was embedded deep in his brain.
As a result of the tumours, he has controlled epilepsy for which he continues to take medication, as well as a protective metal plate implanted over his brain.
“When I was 34 and went through that brain tumour stuff, I was practically resigned to the fact that I was going to die,” Kemp continued to explain to his son.
“I was quite happy with my lot because I had lived the most incredible experiences, I had lived stuff that people had dreamed about doing, being in a rock band, being in the ‘80s in a rock band, the people I’d met, the things I’d done.”
“When I was 17 I was flying around Europe on a (private jet) drinking champagne at 8am in the morning.
“Lived the most incredible life. By the time I was 34 … I was quite happy, I thought if I (went), what a life.
“That was back then, so every year that I live, every month I’m alive now is a bonus.”
His wife Shirlie noticed that a mass was growing on the back of his head, and encouraged him to get checked.
“If they’d never found this one growing out, they wouldn’t have found the one in the middle until it was too late, and that was the one that would have killed me,” he said on Piers Morgan’s Life Stories in 2014.
He has since become a patron of the British charity Encephalitis Society and in 2006 opened a CT scanning suit at Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley, UK.
Kemp wed Shirlie Holliman, who was a former backup singer for Wham! in 1988.
They have two children, Roman, 31, and daughter Harley, 29.
