Sam Neill's poignant final interview: Actor spoke about his love of food after five years of chemo and why he loved playing a 'baddie' in Peaky Blinders in chat conducted shortly before his 'unexpected' death aged 78 6%
By Kirsten Murray0%
7/14/2026, 8:59:23 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 4 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Negativity Bias, and Appeal to Emotion, with Hindsight Bias as the most egregious example at 42.8% saturation with 92 hits. Analysis detected 232 faulty-reasoning hits from 215 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 21.4% and a BS Rank of 6% (15,078 of 15,917 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 94.70% of the article peer group.
Sam Neill opened up about how he celebrated his love of food after five years of chemotherapy in his final interview before his tragic death was announced on Monday.
The actor died at the age of 78 just months after revealing he was 'cancer-free', with his loved ones revealing the death was 'sudden and unexpected'.
And in his last interview conducted in April, the Jurassic Park star revealed he ate whatever he liked following his cancer treatment.
'When I left hospital, I was looking forward to going to some good restaurants.
I said to my nurse: “What should I be eating?”
She said: “Sam, eat whatever you feel like.”
'I was on chemo for five years.
You can’t eat at all for two or three days after you’ve had chemo.
So now, I eat whatever I want,' he told The Guardian.
He added: 'I grow a lot of fruit on the farm – and I’ve just had my breakfast, which involved stewed plums, stewed apricots, and stewed rhubarb, all of which I grow down in the veggie garden.
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