Rumours that movie legend Paul Newman is battling cancer have been confirmed.
According to Sky News a neighbour and business partner of Newman's said the actor told him about the disease 18 months ago.
Writer AE Hotchner, a partner at 'Newman's Own' salad dressing company in the 1980s, did not say what kind of cancer he was suffering from.
Last month, Newman pulled out of directing John Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men' for unspecified health reasons.
He is reported to be attending the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre in New York, a few hours from his Connecticut home.
