East spandau ballet musician martin kemp It is predicted that he will die within 10 years.
Kemp, 62, made the confession during a podcast he recorded with his son, Former Capital Breakfast Radio presenter and former I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! competitor Roman Kemp,
In the 1990s, Kemp was diagnosed with two benign brain tumors, and successfully underwent radiotherapy and surgery to remove the tumors. However, a side effect of the experience was epilepsy, with which Kemp has lived ever since.
Both Kemps discuss their mortality during the first episode of the new podcast series FFS! my father is martin kemp,
In the episode titled “Death, Martin and Roman”, Kemp is asked by his son how long he expects to live.
“I’ll be really honest with you, 10 years,” he replies. “I don’t know how much time I have left, but I’ll tell you, since I was 34, I had a brain tumor scare. I had spent two years of my life thinking about what I was going to do.” Die.
“And I think, after that, everything else, every day, every year, every month that I’ve lived, every experience I’ve had has been a bonus.”
Kemp reported that he was “practically resigned” to the notion that he was going to die, and was “happy”. [his] Very”.
The bassist continued: “I thought: ‘If I go, you know what? What a life’ and that was then. So, every year that I live, every month that I live now, is a bonus. Is like.
“I’ll be happy if I live to be 80, that’ll give me 18 more years.”
Kemp played bass guitar in Spandau Ballet from 1979 until the group’s dissolution in 1990, later returning for a decade after the band reunited in 2009.
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Kemp has done before Said to be put on soap eastendersAnd the positive role it played in his recovery from a brain tumor.
“After the operation, my brain was still not functioning properly,” he said. “To the extent that sometimes if I wanted to walk on the left, I would walk on the right, or like I couldn’t think about keeping things in order or anything like that. The learning lines were just out there.
“When eastenders I was offered it, it was a chance for me to get over it, so it wasn’t just me taking on EastEnders because I thought yes, it was a good program – it was me getting my life back. Trying to get it together.