‘Seinfeld’ actor Michael Richards reveals prostate cancer battle: I would’ve ‘been dead’ in 8 months

Michael Richards, 74, greatest recognized for enjoying Cosmo Kramer in “Seinfeld,” has exposed a wellness scare. 

In his memoir “Entrances and Exits,” coming out June 4, he information how he was diagnosed with phase 1 prostate most cancers in 2018, following a plan checkup confirmed significant PSA stages. 

“I considered, perfectly, this is my time. I’m all set to go,” he told Persons.

“But then my son came to intellect just a several seconds later on and I heard myself saying, “I’ve acquired a 9-12 months-aged and I’d like to be all around for him. Is there any way I can get a little more existence going?”

Richards, who played Kramer for virtually a ten years on the strike clearly show, and won a few Emmys for the role, stated that his physicians advised medical procedures to take out his prostate.

“It had to be contained rapidly,” he suggests. “I had to go for the whole surgery. If I hadn’t, I almost certainly would have been dead in about eight months.”

This close to-pass up pushed him to compose a memoir, he explained to the outlet. 

“I had above 40 journals I’d stored more than the a long time and preferred to do a complete overview of my existence,” he stated. “I’m turning 75, so probably seeking to do that is a little something that arrives with currently being my age. I required to link with inner thoughts and memory. I’m stunned at how a great deal I was equipped to remember.”

In his memoir, he also addresses the infamous controversy in 2006 where he applied the N-phrase through a racist tantrum to berate a heckler at a comedy club.

He apologized publicly on “David Letterman” at the time, but also still left the highlight immediately after that, proficiently ending his occupation. 

“I’m not racist,” he told People in an interview printed on Wednesday. “I have nothing versus Black people. The guy who informed me I wasn’t humorous experienced just stated what I’d been declaring to myself for a though. I felt put down. I needed to place him down.”

Richards extra that he took a step back to determine out why he experienced “anger” within of him. 

“I reported no to the supply of a star on the Hollywood Wander of Fame. I did not sense deserving,” he said.

“I claimed no to hosting ‘Saturday Night time Live’ 2 times because I did not truly feel good plenty of. I was never seriously happy with my ‘Seinfeld’ efficiency. Fame magnified my insecurities.” 

The actor is however good friends with Jerry Seinfeld, but lives a lower-vital way of living with his spouse, actress Beth Skipp, with whom he shares a son. 

He ways into the spotlight not often, like when he attended the premiere for Seinfeld’s directorial debut “Unfrosted” (now streaming on Netflix). 

“I was straight away sorry the minute I claimed it onstage,” Richards advised the outlet, ahead of introducing: “I’m not hunting for a comeback.”

“The problems was within of me,” he stated.

“So I wholly stepped away from exhibit small business. It was time to vanish and finally spend focus to wherever all of my anger was coming from. The most I could do for all people was go residence and get my s–t jointly.”