Speaking with Mariskal Rock TV, Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford discussed his battle with prostate cancer during the lockdown, something that he kept quiet until only recently. Check out the interview clip below.

Halford: "It's in remission. I count my blessings. It's just a miracle what they can do with health care these days; it's absolutely remarkable. So in my story, my main message is to guys everywhere around the world, when you get to a certain age it's very important that you get your prostate checked, your bloodwork checked, get a colonoscopy. It's all these things that old blokes like me go, 'Wait, wait, wait...' That's the worst thing to do. So that was part of the reason I wanted to push the message out. And the fact that it's been out for a while anyway - it's been out since last September in the final edition of the 'Confess' paperback - so it was gonna surface anyway."

Heavy Consequence recently spoke with Halford for an interview about the band’s new 50 Heavy Metal Years Of Music box set. During the chat, Rob casually revealed, “I had my little cancer battle a year ago, which I got through and that’s in remission now, thank God. That happened while we were all locked down, so things happen for a reason as far as time sequence of events. I have nothing but gratitude to be at this point in my life, still doing what I love the most.”

While Halford hadn’t previously mentioned his cancer battle publicly, it turns out the details were revealed in the new chapter added to the just-released updated paperback edition of Halford’s 2020 memoir, Confess, in which he writes, with great specificity and some humor, about being diagnosed with and treated for prostate cancer during the spring of 2020, and again earlier this year.

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