The 57-year-old shared how it’s been good for her to make this series
Kylie Minoque will open up about her life and career in her brand new tell-all series on Netflix, including her battle with cancer.
Australian popstar Kylie Minogue has a new three-part Netflix series coming out this week, made by the same team who worked on Sir David Beckham’s hit documentary.
It features footage from her childhood and time in Australian soap Neighbours, as well interviews with friends and family including her former co-star Jason Donovan, sister Dannii and musician Nick Cave.
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Speaking at a Q&A in central London ahead of the documentary’s release, Kylie admitted that it had been “good” to make the series. “There’s light and shade for sure,” she said of the film, adding: “We’re all human.”
When asked by host broadcaster Clara Amfo what the singer hoped her fans would understand about her after watching the film, she said: “I can imagine that fans and maybe even broader than that… maybe that’s one of the reasons that I have this relationship with my fans and the broader audience, is they can see, don’t know if I tried to do this, again it’s very weird to say this about myself, but I’m not invincible.
“I can get the job done and I can shine, hopefully. But I think that, I don’t know, that they understand that you could be me, we could co-exist.”
Kylie was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer in May 2005 aged 36. She underwent a lumpectomy and chemotherapy in Paris, and was given the all-clear in 2006. News coverage of her cancer diagnosis caused an unprecedented increase in bookings for mammograms, referred to as the ‘Kylie effect’.
The singer opens up about her battle in the new documentary alongside sister Dannii. Speaking in the trailer, Kylie says: “I felt removed from my body, I was so scared of what was ahead of me.”
Dannii adds: “We didn’t know if she’s ever gonna be well again. I just wanted to be with my sister.”
On some of the public scrutiny and misogyny she has faced during her career, which is featured in the film, the star added: “There’s always a lot of talk about how much I’ve changed.
“”We all change through life, and grown and developed, and certainly that’s evident, as an artist, like I was famous before I knew what I was doing, so you know, and there came a lot of the criticism and the hardship with that, but what’s illuminating to me is, in so many ways, I haven’t changed.
“Like, the way of dealing with stuff from that time that you’re talking about is kind of how I do it now, like I read the room, do what I have to do, feel the fear and do it anyway.”
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