{"id":8815,"date":"2026-07-14T19:53:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T19:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/sam-neill-had-pneumonia-before-his-tragic-death-co-star\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T19:53:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T19:53:05","slug":"sam-neill-had-pneumonia-before-his-tragic-death-co-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/sam-neill-had-pneumonia-before-his-tragic-death-co-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Neill had pneumonia before his tragic death: co-star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F3%2F2026%2F07%2F134371169.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Sam Neill allegedly had pneumonia before his <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/07\/13\/celebrity-news\/sam-neill-dead-at-78-starred-in-jurassic-park\/\">tragic death<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-a4d55e\">\u201cIt really sucks, actually,\u201d\u00a0the late actor\u2019s \u201cHunt for the Wilderpeople\u201d co-star Rima Te Wiata <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/sir-sam-neill-had-pneumonia-before-death-in-sydney-co-star-says\/NRSRGK45RBCMXHPMWKSTJ6HZIQ\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the New Zealand Herald<\/a> Monday.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-184603\">\u201cI think he would be like: \u2018For goodness sake, I got over my cancer. And now look, now I get pneumonia. What next?\u2019\u201d the New Zealand actress, 63, added.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Sam Neill (seen above in 2019) allegedly had pneumonia before his tragic death. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>\u201cI think he would be like: \u2018For goodness sake, I got over my cancer. And now look, now I get pneumonia. What next?\u2019\u201d Rima Te Wiata (seen above in 2019) told the New Zealand Herald. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p id=\"anchor-184603\">\u201cHe\u2019s on his big journey now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Te Wiata did not disclose additional details about Neill\u2019s alleged illness.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/07\/13\/entertainment\/sam-neill-was-jurassic-parks-underrated-secret-weapon\/\">\u201cJurassic Park\u201d star\u2019s<\/a> loved ones announced he died. He was 78.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The actress (seen above with the \u201cHunt for the Wilderpeople\u201d cast in 2017) said Neill\u2019s death \u201creally sucks.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Neill and Te Wiata (both seen in the movie poster above) starred together in the 2016 comedy \u201cHunt for the Wilderpeople.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Everett Collection \/ Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cSam was surrounded by family and passed with the dignity that has characterized his whole life,\u201d his family said in a statement. \u201cThe loss was sudden and unexpected but blessed by the fact that Sam remained cancer free.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Neill\u2019s relatives expressed \u201ctheir deepest gratitude to the staff at St Vincent\u2019s Private Hospital for their incredible care,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore details will be shared later, but for now, on behalf of the family, we ask that you respect their privacy as they navigate this immeasurable loss.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The \u201cJurassic Park\u201d star\u2019s loved ones announced he died on Monday. He was 78. (Pictured: Neill in 1990.) <span class=\"credit\">Ralph Dominguez\/MediaPunch\/INSTARimages<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Neill\u2019s loved ones said the loss was \u201csudden and unexpected.\u201d (Pictured: Neill.) <span class=\"credit\">laura.tingle\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Tuesday, the \u201cPeaky Blinders\u201d alum\u2019s ex Laura Tingle said the actor <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/07\/14\/celebrity-news\/sam-neills-ex-details-the-jurassic-park-actors-pretty-sick-final-days-after-sudden-death\/\">had been \u201cpretty sick\u201d<\/a> before his\u00a0passing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bottom line is he\u2019d been fighting various forms of cancer for at least the last five years, intensively,\u201d the journalist, 65,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/listen\/programs\/sydney-mornings\/mornings\/106899552\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said on \u201cSydney Mornings.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat takes a toll on anybody\u2019s body. He\u2019d had a lot of chemo and a lot of immunotherapy,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThankfully, it had finally cleared him of the blood cancer that he had. But that left him pretty compromised in terms of his immune system. I think his poor old body sort of got a bit exhausted.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The \u201cPeaky Blinders\u201d alum\u2019s ex Laura Tingle (seen above) said the actor had been \u201cpretty sick\u201d before his\u00a0passing. <span class=\"credit\">laura.tingle\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>In April, Neill\u00a0(seen above in 2019) announced he was cancer-free. <span class=\"credit\">Redferns<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tingle \u2014 who dated Neill from 2018 to 2021 \u2014 said the actor had been \u201csick for the last couple of weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody who loved him has been willing him on from near and far, but I think it was just a bit too much to recover from one more time,\u201d she shared.<\/p>\n<p>In April, Neill\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/28\/celebrity-news\/jurassic-park-star-sam-neill-reveals-hes-now-cancer-free\/\">announced he was cancer-free<\/a>\u00a0following\u00a0his battle with a rare and aggressive form of cancer called angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/07\/14\/celebrity-news\/sam-neill-had-pneumonia-before-his-tragic-death-co-star\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Neill allegedly had pneumonia before his tragic death. \u201cIt really sucks, actually,\u201d\u00a0the late actor\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/134371169.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}