A man has been rushed to hospital after being assaulted on a Scots street on Sunday afternoon.
18.07.2023 - 09:49 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Timothy Spall was diagnosed with Leukaemia 27 years ago and at the time doctors told him he only had three days to live.
In 1996, the actor was aged just 39 and was all set to fly out to Cannes Film Festival to promote his film Secrets & Lies when he received the diagnosis which meant he had to skip the festival to undergo treatment, writes The Mirror.
Opening up about it on the The Graham Norton Show, he said: “I was diagnosed with Leukaemia the day I was supposed to go to Cannes and when I saw everyone coming down the red carpet I was having my first chemo stuck directly to my heart when I was watching this all going on.
“It was nice because they were winning prizes while I was sort of doing an impersonation of not trying to peg it which I valiantly managed to achieve.”
The star, who is starring in BBC drama The Sixth Commandment, went on to say that being told he was going to die gave him a feeling of “profundity“, that he soon grew bored of.
He added: “When you’re in a state of not knowing whether you’re going to live or die or not, you’re in a state of profundity. So I remember going out to the park in between treatments and looking at a tree and for the first time really thinking what an amazing thing it was.
“And for about 10 minutes I thought that is a really nice tree. And then after a while I did it again and after a while I thought, ‘you know, this profundity thing is a bit over-rated’.”
The actor explained that he knew he was getting better when he started being “petty“ with his family and friends.
He said: “So when I got better and started being petty and snapping at the people I loved and shouting at people in traffic jams and being ridiculous, funny and scatological, I knew I was getting better.
“Because when
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