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Morrissey chats more about illness and airport fracas

By Chris Cooke | Published on Thursday 20 August 2015

Morrissey has been talking in slightly more detail about recent developments in his life in an interview with Larry King on the veteran talk show host’s online programme.

And that included speaking about the cancer treatment that the singer revealed was behind various gig cancellations last autumn. Expanding on that a little, Morrissey told King: “Cancer was found, yes. I had Barrett’s, which is the oesophagus. They scrape it occasionally and I have medication. But I’m OK. Lots of people have it and they fade away. Some other people have it and they don’t fade away”. But, he added, at the moment he felt in good health and that he was “blooming”.

Elsewhere in the interview, he spoke about those recent allegations he made regarding staff at San Francisco International Airport, who he last month accused of sexually assaulting him while he went through security. In a post on True To You last month Morrissey wrote “before I could gather my belongings from the usual array of trays [after going through security] I was approached by an ‘airport security officer’ who stopped me, crouched before me and groped my penis and testicles”.

Embellishing a little, he told King of the incident: “Would you like the absolute truth? They are horrific. He put his finger down my rear cleavage. Why would he want to [do that]? Why would he need to? Everything was fine but then he went straight for my private bits and then he put his finger down my rear cleavage”.

Of course, we ought to here note that the US Transport Security Administration denied any wrongdoing when Morrissey made his original allegations against its staff last month.