'Arrow' Star David Ramsey Reveals Secret Battle With Testicular Cancer, Talks Hardest Part of Chemotherapy

David Ramsey has revealed he underwent a secret battle with cancer and has come out a survivor.

The 54-year-old Arrow actor and director shared about his testicular cancer diagnosis and undergoing chemotherapy during the latest episode of the Inside of You podcast with Michael Rosenbaum.

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“I mean, listen, there’s a part of my personality that’s, in general, a little more, kind of, laid back and ‘Hey, as it comes it comes and I’m enjoying it. I love it. Period, no problem.’ That’s how I see the world and it’s worked for me. I think that’s kind of reflected in me not really sharing the story,” he shared about not speaking out before. “Not that I don’t want to, it’s just not really my personality. Now, in more recent years, there’s an uptick in testicular cancer, there’s an uptick in cancer in general, and I should talk about this more.”

“So, getting back to how it all happened, I was kickboxing a lot and one of the testes was significantly smaller than the other. Now that’s true no matter what. They’re not the same. It’s like the side of your face, right? They don’t match, right? So that’s real no matter what. But one was significant. So I went to the doctor,” he continued.

David added that he knew something was not right when after the ultrasound, four doctors came into the room.

“It was a watch and advise for the next 10 years,” he shared, noting he was 28 at that time. “It’s funny man, because it’s like, ‘Do you want to take the testicle right now?’ Because what they saw, they don’t know what it was. They saw something called microlithiasis. Anyone that’s kind of gone through testicular cancer will understand that. That’s present if there’s cancer but it can be present without cancer. So, they’re watching.”

David revealed that about eight and a half years later, it was the size of his fist “out of the blue,” though it was “never painful.” He shared he then went to the doctor and they had to remove his testicle before undergoing chemo.

On how hard chemotherapy was, David said, “What was tougher was seeing the other kids in there going through it.”

“You’re sitting right there and you’re kind of locked in, you’re kind of getting the stuff pumped into you and you’ve got your laptop or whatever and you’re looking to some kid who has no hair and he’s 12 years old and his mother is right there next to him,” he continued. “And there’s another kid and then there’s a man who’s 70 and it’s just kind of like, ‘I’m alright.’ You know what I mean? I’m alright.”

At least in my life, that’s changed everything. It was always that way. You go back to the acting and like, ‘Oh, you know, you’re guest starring and now it’s my time.’ It’s just not my perspective. My perspective is, ‘This is f***ing awesome, bro,’” David added. “That’s always my perspective. All the time.”

More recently, David has been seen on screen in The Hunting Party and Bel-Air, and is set to make an appearance on an upcoming episode of Tracker!