‘Riverdance’ Star Michael Flatley Diagnosed With ‘Aggressive’ Cancer

Michael Flatley, well-known for his “Riverdance” Show, announced that he had been diagnosed with an aggressive form cancer.

Flatley, 64, who grew up on Chicago’s South Side and won the middleweight division of the Chicago Golden Gloves Boxing Championship when he was a teenager, was invited to help create an intermission show for the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest. He performed “Riverdance,” It lasted seven minute. Then he pushed for the show to be extended, which was starred by Jean Butler.

1995 saw him fired. However, he said that “I just wanted control over the work that I had created myself. That’s all. I don’t think that that’s too much to ask. I felt like I built it and they took it, and that’s the end of it… and it hurt.” Then he created “Lord of the Dance.”

Flatley, a married mother of one, was diagnosed in 2003 with malignant melanoma. On Wednesday, Flatley’s Instagram account released a Statement Writing about his current situation

Dear friends, Michael Flatley was diagnosed with an aggressive form cancer. He is now in the excellent care of a team of doctors and has had surgery. We will not make any further comments at this point. Your prayers and well wishes are all we ask. We appreciate your understanding.

After Flatley’s melanoma was discovered by an MTV viewer who saw symptoms on him in 2003, he The Irish Independent “It was purely by chance that it was noticed. I had never even noticed it…it can be a frightening place to be.”

He said that 2021 would be his last. “So many people who surround me have had cancer and so many people I know have died from it. We were at the fifth anniversary of ‘Lord of the Dance’ in Las Vegas and I did an interview with MTV. Somebody watched the interview and brought it to the attention of my personal assistant and said: ‘Did you ever notice the brown spot on the side of Michael’s face?’”

“I had never even noticed it,” He remembered. “They advised me to go and have it looked at. I did and the doctor took a sample of it there and then. I was flying to Barbados the next day and he gave me a call and asked me to come and see him. I said I was leaving for the airport and would he mind if I called him when I got back. He said, ‘No, I need you to come in immediately.’ That was a little scary. I canceled the flight and went straight in to see him. He said if I had let it go a few more weeks there was probably nothing he could have done for me.”

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