David Johansen of the New York Dolls has a fourth stadium cancer

“It’s the worst pain I’ve ever felt throughout my life.” David Johansen, New York Dolls frontman, revealed that he had a fourth stadium cancer. By sharing the news of the diagnosis, the musician’s daughter, Leah Hennessey, started fundraising to contribute to the expenses of care and assistance explaining that Johansen has received intensive treatments against cancer for “most of the last decade”.

According to reports on the fundraising page, created in collaboration with the Sweet Relief Musician Fund, the artist received a diagnosis of brain cancer in 2020, which led to further complications. In addition, David Johansen also fell from the stairs to break his back in two points last November. “He has never made his diagnosis public, because he and my mother Mara are very reserved people, but we feel the need to share it now due to the increasingly serious financial burden that our family is facing,” reads the description.

In a statement shared by Brooklyn Vegan, Johansen said: “We lived with my illness for a long time, continuing to have fun, to see friends and family, to go on, but this fall, the day after the thanks, brought us At a completely new level of debilitation.