'I'd never realised how much I wanted to live until I thought I was going to die.' Artist Tracey Emin speaks to Newsnight about getting the all clear after a series of major surgeries for bladder cancer READ 📖 WATCH 🎥
"I never realised how much I wanted to live until I thought I was going to die," said Tracey EminThe 57-year-old told BBC Newsnight she reached a "big, big milestone" last week when her three-monthly scans were "all clear"."I'm not painting because I'm using my willpower to stay alive. That's what I'm doing," she told the programme.
She now has a urostomy bag, which replaces the bladder and urinary system. It is a "major disability" because it needs to be emptied as frequently as every 20 minutes, she said.
The Margate-based artist said when she began working on the Royal Academy of Arts exhibition four years ago she had "no idea that there was a possibility that I was never going to see this show".Tracey Emin: "People would have come to this show and I would have been dead. It would have been so Tracey."
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