Top Gun star Val Kilmer has opened up about his health battle after being diagnosed with throat cancer four years ago, and jokes that he now ‘laughs like a pirate’. The Top Gun actor was diagnosed with throat cancer back in 2015 but only revealed his health problems two years later after actor Michael Douglas broke the news.
Sharing an update on his health, Val said on Good Morning America this week: ‘I feel a lot better than I sound, but I feel wonderful. ‘I was diagnosed with throat cancer, which healed very quickly.’ Holding his hand to his throat, he added: ‘This is a tracheotomy… to help me breathe because the glands in my throat swelled up as well.’ When asked what he misses about his old voice, Val joked: ‘That I had one!