Bruce Campbell, best known as the star of horror film The Evil Dead, revealed he has been diagnosed with cancer.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese days, when someone is having a health issue, it\u2019s referred to as an \u2018opportunity,\u2019 so let\u2019s go with that \u2014 I\u2019m having one of those,\u201d Campbell wrote in a lengthy\u00a0post on X<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s also called a type of cancer that\u2019s \u2018treatable\u2019 not \u2018curable.\u2019 I apologize if that\u2019s a shock \u2014 it was to me too.\u201d<\/p>\n More from Rolling Stone<\/p>\n The actor did not share the specific type of cancer. \u201cThe good news is, I\u2019m not gonna go into any more detail,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI\u2019m posting this, because professionally, a few things will have to change \u2014 appearances and cons and work in general need to take a back seat to treatment. My plan is to get as well as I possibly can over the summer so that I can tour with my new movie\u00a0Ernie & Emma\u00a0this fall.\u201d<\/p>\n He continued, \u201cThere are several cons this summer that I have to cancel. Big regrets on my part. Treatment needs and professional obligations don\u2019t always go hand-in-hand. That\u2019s about it. I\u2019m not trying to enlist sympathy \u2014 or advice \u2014 I just want to get ahead of this information in case false information gets out (which it will).\u201d<\/p>\n Campbell concluded his posted by sending love to fans and sharing his intention to stay strong \u201cFear not, I am a tough old son-of-a-bitch and I have great support, so I expect to be around a while,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n Campbell first starred as Ash Williams in 1981 horror movie\u00a0The Evil Dead. He reprised the role a few times, including in TV series\u00a0Ash vs. Evil Dead<\/a>, which premiered in 2015 and ran for three seasons.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m always surprised by the demand, because the first\u00a0Evil Dead\u00a0was financed by dentists and doctors,\u201d Campbell told Rolling Stone<\/a> in 2015. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t even an indie darling. It clawed its way from nowhere to where it is today, which is still a mom-and-pop operation. We\u2019re just glad that, after all this hard work, people want more.\u201d<\/p>\n Over the years, Campbell has also appeared on The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.,\u00a0Xena: Warrior Princes,\u00a0Hercules,\u00a0and\u00a0Burn Notice.\u00a0In 2018, he took a role in AMC series Lodge 49 because he was excited by playing a scumbag.<\/p>\n \u201cI have standard good looks, so I could have done soap operas,\u201d he told Rolling Stone<\/a>. \u201cBut to me that was not appealing because there\u2019s just not enough going on. I like flawed characters. Perfect characters? That\u2019s for superheroes. Gimme a dyslexic plumber any day.\u201d<\/p>\n Campbell wrote, directed, and starred in Ernie & Emma<\/a>, \u201ca poignant road-trip comedy about grief, love, and rediscovering life after loss.\u201d<\/p>\n Best of Rolling Stone<\/p>\n Sign up for RollingStone’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bruce Campbell, best known as the star of horror film The Evil Dead, revealed he has been diagnosed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[158925,146,125183,85,46,397,26030,33862,158970],"class_list":["post-319381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bruce-campbell","tag-entertainment","tag-evil-dead","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-movies","tag-rolling-stone","tag-the-evil-dead","tag-type-of-cancer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}