Judas Priest’s Rob Halford: Why I Decided To Go Public With My Prostate Cancer Battle [Video]

JUDAS PRIEST singer Rob Halford spoke to Spain’s Mariskal Rock about his decision to go public with his battle with prostate cancer. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “It’s in remission. I count my blessings — thanks to God. It was a time when… You know, timing is everything in rock and roll and heavy metal. And, of course, this was going on during the pandemic — the initial stages of the pandemic — so the world was completely closed down. PRIEST would have been on a bit of a hiatus anyway, because we had just been around the world three times with [PRIEST‘s latest album] ‘Firepower’, so we were gonna be on a kind of a break although we were writing for the new album. And so I was able to take care of three things, really — promote [my autobiography] ‘Confess’, do some writing with the band before …