Kylie MinogueKylie Minogue didn’t just talk about music, acting and leading a successful career in entertainment for decades in her new Netflix documentary series.
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that, towards the end of the three-part series, she opened up about the second time she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2021. It’s the first time that Minogue has publicly addressed her second diagnosis.
Throughout the documentary series, the Can’t Get You Out Of My Head hitmaker explained that she tried to find “the right time” to share her second diagnosis with the public.
“I don’t feel obliged to tell the world, and actually I just couldn’t at the time because I was just a shell of a person,” Minogue said candidly, per PEOPLE.
She continued, “I didn’t want to leave the house again at one point. ‘Padam Padam’ opened so many doors for me, but on the inside, I knew that cancer wasn’t just a blip in my life. I really just wanted to say what happened so I can let go of it. I’d sit through interviews and every opportunity I thought, ‘Now’s the time,’ but I kept it to myself.”
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“My second cancer diagnosis was in early 2021,” Minogue said in her new Netflix documentary, per The Guardian. “I was able to keep that to myself… Not like the first time.”
She added, “Thankfully, I got through it. Again. And all is well. Hey, who knows what’s around the corner, but pop music nurtures me.”
While she didn’t publicly share the news at the time, Minogue did channel the experience into her music. In the song Story, from her album Tension, she bared her soul without naming what was happening when she sang: “I had a secret that I kept to myself/ Turn another page, baby/ Take the stage.”
In the documentary, Minogue said she “needed to have something” to mark that time in her life. Overall, the Netflix series meant that she was “looking back at so many pivotal moments in my life, and this was another one.”
KYLIE, described as an “intimate” three-part documentary series, drops on Netflix today at 5 pm AEST. You can watch the trailer below.
Emmy and BAFTA Award-winning director Michael Harte (Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, BECKHAM) directed the documentary series. It’s also produced by John Battsek’s Ventureland, the team behind WHAM! and other documentaries.
In addition to interviews with Kylie and Dannii Minogue, the documentary will feature conversations with Nick Cave, Jason Donovan and Pete Waterman.
