Kylie Minogue makes honest admission about cancer battle in new documentary

The trailer for Kylie Minogue’s new Netflix documentary has finally launched, leaving fans emotional over the singer’s journey, where she opens up about cancer battle

Kylie Minogue’s fans have reacted to the trailer of a new Netflix series about the Australian singer, in which she shares her own home movies and personal photographs for the first time. She also talks about her cancer battle, saying: “I was so scared of what was ahead of me.”

The three-part documentary follows the 57-year-old popstar, who teases at the start of the trailer: “They’re convincing me to let you in.”

One fan reacted to the trailer, saying: “She is everything that is right with the world, an inspiration, an icon.” While another agreed: “I’ve been a fan since she was in Neighbours and followed her ever since. This will be an emotional journey for all her true fans, can’t wait!”

The three parts will release on May 20th, showing how Kylie has grown over decades of her career and through eras of her musical style, where she has sold 80 million copies.

Talking about being photographed and filmed, she says: “I love the feeling around the shot. That feeling of freedom. I hate being boxed in.” And of her long and recording career, she says: “Life makes sense to me on stage.” Hinting that she is a long way from hanging up her microphone, she adds: “I don’t know where we’re going. There’s certainly no end.”

Her former partner, Michael Hutchence, and her former co-star, Jason Donovan, with whom she appeared on the Australian soap Neighbours, make appearances in the series.

Singer Nick Cave and hit-maker Pete Waterman, who put her on the path to superstardom all those years ago, also appear in the docuseries, where Nick says: “Kylie is this force. It’s all outward. Giving.”

She admits to feeling “frustrated” by headlines labelling her the “singing budgie” and calling her “awful”, “mechanistic”, “talentless” and “terrible”.

One scene shows her with her head in her hands on the edge of the stage as someone asks, “How are you feeling?” In another moment, looking very happy, she declares, “I can’t actually speak just yet.”

When she was 36, in 2005, Kylie was battling breast cancer, where she admits: “I was so scared of what was ahead of me… f***!” Her younger sister Dannii, also involved in the series, says: “We didn’t know if she was ever going to be well again. But I just wanted to be with my sister. Music kept us going.”

The three parts, from BAFTA Award-winner Michael Harte, will attempt to show viewers the woman behind the hits, focusing on “how she has faced public scrutiny, personal loss and illness with grit and grace”.

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