Sam first revealed his diagnosis in his memoir, Did I Ever Tell You This, published back in March, informing readers he was “possibly dying.”
“I didn’t know really how long I had to live,” he explained during Australian Story. “And I thought, yeah, I should probably write something down for my children, my grandchildren, because I may not be here in a couple of months and it would be good for them to have a sense of me, you know, and and some of the things that I’ve done.”