Hugh Jackman Wife: Star Says He Battled Skin Cancer Again, Urges Others to Use Sunscreen
Hugh Jackman posted a picture of himself on Instagram with a bandage on his nose.
He revealed that he battled skin cancer once again.
"Another Basal Cell Carcinoma," he said on the Instagram picture. "All out now. Thanks Dr. Albom and Dr. Arian. Please! Please! Wear Sunscreen!"
The actor also faced skin cancer in November of last year.
"Deb said to get the mark on my nose checked," he said in a previous Instagram post. "Boy, was she right! I had a basal cell carcinoma. Please don't be foolish like me. Get yourself checked. And USE sunscreen!"
Late last year he opened up about his skin cancer.
He didn't think it seemed like anything to worry about it, but the doctors did tell him that he was lucky he got it checked out sooner rather than later.
Jackman would definitely not have gotten it checked out had it not been for his wife and makeup artist.
"I was shooting the movie, and I had a bit of blood one morning, and I thought I'd scratched myself in a fight," he said.
When his nose was bloody a few weeks later, he assumed it was that he had scratched off a scab. But his makeup artist noticed and told him to get it checked out. And his wife "hounded" him until he went to the doctor.
"I don't remember being stopped and someone saying, ‘Are you boys wearing sunscreen,' until I was around 15, 16," he said. "People presume actors are very vain, but I told the doctor to make it an even bigger scar. Go about 45 degrees up, then a little tilt down -- I've always wanted one of those."
At that time, he said that he would keep getting the area checked out a few times a year, and it seems he has kept his word.