Former Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson said that he battled a cancer scare days before the incident with his Irish producer Oisin Tymon which led to him losing his job.
The 55-year-old wrote in his column for The Sunday Times: "Two days before the 'fracas', I'd been told, sternly, by my doctor that the lump on my tongue was probably cancer and that I must get it checked out immediately.
"But I couldn't do that. We were in the middle of a Top Gear series. And Top Gear always came first."
Since then, the presenter has found out that he doesn't have cancer and has been given the all-clear.
He also shared his plans for the future: "I have lost my baby but I shall create another.
"I don't know who the other parent will be or what the baby will be like, but I cannot sit around any more organising my photograph albums."
