Great Gatsby star Kate Mulvany has revealed her experiences
after she recovered from childhood cancer.
The 41-year-old actress from Geraldton, Western Australia,
has endured chronic pain for almost 30 years, as her body tried to recover from
excessive radiation treatment for renal cancer.
The busy playwright was aged three when she was diagnosed
with the cancer, which was later connected to her father Danny's exposure to
Agent Orange in the Vietnam War.
Speaking about her decades of physical suffering, Mulvany
explained she was never angry with her body but rather the systems that made
her body that way.
'I'm angry that I have a cancer that came from the spraying
of dioxin in South-East Asia in a war six years before I was even born,' she
told The Weekend Australian.
Mulvany was diagnosed with renal cancer at age three, which
was connected to her father's time fighting in the jungle during the Vietnam
War.
Mulvany had once dreamed of having six children but was
devastatingly advised against it.
The Little Death actress explained her mother had always
told her she probably wouldn't be able to be able to have children, but a
doctor's diagnosis tipped her over the edge.
'When a doctor definitely said to me, ''Don't do it, don't
even try'' I was furious,' she recalled.
'That was the first time I'd really felt bitter fury about
who the f*** had made that choice about my body. Why would my body always have
to deal with this?'
Mulvany, who has written 25 plays, said her legacy would be
left through them.
Her father, who suffered from PTSD, died in 2017 following a
battle with with oesophageal cancer.
Mulvany described him as a 'superhero' who held a lot of
guilt, heartbreak and trauma about his legacy of dioxin.
In the years of battling chronic pain, Mulvany said she felt
some relief when she decided to label her condition as a disability.
The hardworker won't turn down jobs from the pain but admits
it's important to be frank when she's having a difficult day, as her body's not
always able to cope like an able body.
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