LOS ANGELES – Actor Patrick Swayze, the ‘Dirty Dancing’ star who is battling pancreatic cancer, has been released from a week-long stay at a hospital where he was treated for pneumonia, People magazine reported on Friday.
Swayze (56) was hospitalised in Los Angeles on January 9, hours before he was scheduled to appear at a gathering of television critics to promote his new TV crime drama, ‘The Beast’, which premiered on the A&E cable network on Thursday.
The actor stars as a rogue FBI undercover agent.
‘I am happy to announce that Patrick Swayze is home after a brief hospitalisation for pneumonia,’ his spokeswoman, Annett Wolf, told People.
Swayze, diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year, told Barbara Walters of ABC News in a TV interview broadcast on January 7 that he was ‘going through hell’ and might have only two years to live. But he denied reports he was near death. – Nampa-Reuters
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