The ‘Dirty Dancing’ star was one of the first public figures to reveal he had the disease, the same disease that killed Alex Trebek and Steve Jobs.
Swayze was diagnosed in 2007 and died at age 57.
“I tried drinking champagne, and it would be like pouring acid, you know, on an open wound,” Swayze told her. “My indigestion issues became gigantic and constant. And then I started thinking, I’m getting skinny. I lost about 20 pounds in the blink of an eye. And then when you see it in the mirror, when all of a sudden you look down and the bottom(s) of your eyes turn yellow and jaundice sets in – then you know something is wrong.”
It was too late when Swayze was diagnosed and the disease had spread.
Some fans took to Twitter to remember the late actor, with one writing: “The late Patrick Swayze was born on this date in 1952. The ‘Dirty Dancing’ star was a Hollywood icon. “