Last updated: Friday, September 7, 2007
PAVAROTTI WAS 'AT EASE' KNOWING THE END WAS NEAR
Italian opera legend LUCIANO PAVAROTTI was grateful to God for blessing him with a 'happy and fortunate' life, even during the final days of his battle with cancer.
LUCIANO PAVAROTTI
In his last ever interview, with Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, the ailing maestro revealed how he was at ease knowing that he was close to death, because it was "God's way" of "getting even" with him, for forging such a hugely successful career.
He said: "I have been a happy and fortunate man for 65 years. Then came this blow (cancer). And now I am paying the price of all that happiness and good fortune. But I find sustenance in my childhood, which was both poor and happy, and I look at things calmly.
"Illness has never caused me anguish. You feel the tumour inside of you. It works at you. But I am and will remain optimistic until I die.
"I have had everything in life, truly everything. So if it were all taken away, then God and I would be even."
Pavarotti lost his battle with pancreatic cancer at the age of 71 on Thursday (06Sep07).
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Source: WENN
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