Former singer for 80s pop band Journey Steve Perry bared all in a blog post he put on his Fan Asylum website in which he wrote of his recent cancer scare, and his loss of a love who eventually died from cancer herself.
The "Don't Stop Believin'" crooner wrote that he fell in love with psychologist Kellie Nash after he watched a cancer TV special in which she was featured. He had to meet her, Yahoo reported.
"In May of 2011, I was with Patty Jenkins in an editing room as she was putting the final editing touches on what was to be the closing segment of a Lifetime Channel breast cancer special called 'Five,'" he recounted. "As the opening scenes camera panned across an outside hospital patio, a narrator's voice commented on their lives and their types of cancer. The camera came across this girl sitting there laughing...I asked [Patty] if she would send Kellie an email that your friend Steve would love to take her to coffee or lunch sometime."
Patty agreed, but told him that Kellie Nash had suffered almost four years in a battle with cancer.
"'Now, she's Stage Four and fighting for her life,'" Jenkins told Perry, who was shocked.
"I was frozen," he wrote. But the two met in person, fell in love almost instantaneously, and spent a year and a half in each others' arms.
They moved to New York, where Nash sought out alternative treatment. The city was also where Perry said the couple, "had the most magical summer of our lives together."
Then, cruelty set in: Nash's cancer returned and she passed away in December of 2012.
"She was so strong, so courageous and we really loved each other so very much."
Three weeks ago, Perry himself had a mole taken off his face that ended up being cancerous.
"I've had two surgeries in two weeks to remove all the cancer cells and I've been told they think they got it all and no other treatments are required," Perry said.
But the recovery from surgery apparently wasn't half as painful as the wounds he sustained from heartbreak.
"Though Kellie and I were only together for one and a half years, it was a lifetime of love packed into every moment," he concluded.
