RELATED: The “Crazy” Way Mark Ruffalo Discovered He Had a Brain Tumor.ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb Before Minogue was diagnosed with breast cancer, she had an initial screening during which doctors missed her tumor. However, something told the pop star to seek a second opinion, at which point her cancer was detected. She now tells women that if they believe something is wrong, it’s important to never dismiss your gut feeling. “If you have any doubt, go back again,” the star told Medicinenet in 2021. RELATED: The “Controversial” Way Ben Stiller Learned He Had Cancer. In a 2020 interview with People, Minogue recalled the early days following her diagnosis. “It’s like the earth had kind of slipped off its axis. You see everything differently,” the Spinning Around singer reflected. Minogue says her own brush with illness serves as a reminder to her that everyone is fighting their own invisible battles. “I remember having had my diagnosis, but the world didn’t know. I was with my brother and my boyfriend at the time—we were all in a daze and went to a cafe. The server at the cafe was like, ‘Hey, how are you today?’ We just kind of robotically said, ‘Good, thanks,’ and in that moment I just thought: You really don’t know what anyone is going through. I thought that same person by tomorrow is going to see the news and say, ‘Oh my God, she was here yesterday, and we didn’t know.’” In the years since her disease has been in remission, Minogue has spent plenty of time processing her experience. However, she said in a 2015 interview on ITV’s Jonathan Ross Show that she still struggles to find the right words when it comes to her diagnosis. “It’s quite difficult to talk about it in interview situations because it’s deep and it’s long and it’s involved and it’s hard to really say what it was in a neat package,” she said at the time, adding, “It’s pretty strange.” That said, Minogue has never let that stop her from sharing her story, or advocating for others to seek cancer screenings and treatment. “Cancer has probably touched everyone in this audience in some way or another, and all the stories are different, but certainly in as much as she felt it was her duty to talk about it,” she said. “I never questioned—not for a split second did I think of not saying what I had.” With her cancer diagnosis, as with the pandemic, Minogue says she now focuses on embracing her new normal. “I think after cancer or any other big, life-changing incident or illness, you have to adapt,” the pop icon, now 53, told People magazine. These days, Minogue says she takes her life one day at a time and strives to focus on the positive. “Life is a series of challenges and you aim to have as many good times as possible,” she told the magazine. “At this stage in my life I really feel like life is just made of moments, and the more moments that can be good, try to acknowledge that that was a good moment. Because it’s all coming at you, good and bad.” RELATED: HGTV’s Tarek El Moussa Says This Was His First Thyroid Cancer Symptom.
