“You just appreciate being lucky enough to be alive.”

Dolph Lundgrenhas been privately battling cancer for the past eight years.

“I didn’t know what it was.

Dolph Lundgren

Dolph Lundgren.Michael Kovac/Getty Images

So I did an MRI and they found there were a few more tumors around the area.”

“We realized it was a lot worse than we thought,” Lundgren’s fiancee Emma Krokdal said.

“I asked him, ‘How long do you think I’ve got left?'”

I thought it was it, for sure."

“2022 was basically watching these medications do their thing,” Lundgren said.

“Finally things had shrunk to about 90%.

Now I’m in the process of taking out the remaining scar tissue in those tumors.

Lundgren has a hopeful outlook.

“You just appreciate being lucky enough to be alive,” he said.

Other upcoming movies includeDrago, Hellfire,andWanted Man.

Watch his interview above.