Sam Neill's ex details the 'Jurassic Park' actor's final days before 'sudden' death
Actor Sam Neill has passed away at age 78 following a long battle with cancer. His former partner Laura Tingle confirmed that while he had been cancer-free, his immune system remained compromised.
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Sam Neill was a globally recognized actor whose death marks the loss of a significant figure in modern cinema.
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Add Page Six on Google Sam Neill’s ex Laura Tingle said the actor had been “sick” before his tragic death.
“The bottom line is he’d been fighting various forms of cancer for at least the last five years, intensively,” the Australian journalist, who dated Neill from 2018 to 2021, said on “Sydney Mornings” Tuesday.
“That takes a toll on anybody’s body. He’d had a lot of chemo and a lot of immunotherapy,” she added.
“Thankfully, it had finally cleared him of the blood cancer that he had. But that left him pretty compromised in terms of his immune system. I think his poor old body sort of got a bit exhausted.”
Tingle, 65, said the “Jurassic Park” star had been “sick for the last couple of weeks.”
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