Dolph Lundgren contemplated ‘legal suicide’ at the lowest point of his cancer battle

Dolph Lundgren has revealed he considered "legal suicide" during the depths of his cancer battle.

The 68-year-old action movie star was originally misdiagnosed with kidney cancer in 2015 before tumours spread in 2020, when he was told he likely only had a few years left to life.

Writing in his new memoir Fights Worth Fighting: Finding Strength In Struggle, he said: “When I was deep into the cancer treatments and thinking about the possibility of killing myself, my brother, Johan, was going to help me, because I didn’t know what kind of condition I might be in once I made that decision.

“I could be in really bad shape by then and not capable of completing the suicide on my own.

"There are countries in Europe, like Switzerland, that permit legal suicide for people who are terminally ill, but I still might have needed someone there to help me.”

However, Dolph and his brother's talks about the idea never went "further than that" because he met Dr. Alexandra Drakaki, which saved his life.

The actor, arguably best known for playing boxer Ivan Drago in 1985's Rocky IV and 2018's Creed II, recalled: "At this point, I was depressed and had almost given up all hope."

However, Dr. Drakaki discovered in 2022 that he actually had lung cancer, and after undergoing treatments, he revealed in 2024 that he is cancer-free.

Dolph recently explained he wants to use his experiences to encourage other people with "their own problems".

He told Entertainment Weekly: "I do what they call survivorship therapy, because you go through cancer survivorship, and you get PTSD, a little bit like a soldier coming back from war, because you faced your own mortality.

“In therapy, they said, ‘The one rule of life is that we all know we’re gonna die.’ But most people don’t think about it.

"You can get hit by a bus any day, but they told me, ‘Well, once you’ve had cancer, you’ve seen the bus. You saw the colour of the bus, and you saw the number of it.’

“I hope [I] can inspire people who have their own problems — not just cancer — to be positive and keep fighting.”