The toughest battle of his life came when he developed cancer in the 1990's. He seems to have won the fight, and was frequently seen as a guest on TV shows like "Suddenly Susan" and also had a part in the feature film "Inspector Gadget" which starred Matthew Broderick. Mr.T continues to pop up on tv and motion pictures.

Mr.T says "I'm not sad. And I never said Why me?' You know, I prayed in my doctor's office when he told me that the tests came back positive. And I prayed and I said, 'I thank you God for allowing me to help and reach other people.

The dermatologist did a biopsy or whatever you call it and he said, 'It might have just been a bacterial infection." I said, "Okay, just give me some antibiotics" and then in about a week he said, "Well we should be hearing something back soon, so don't worry".

So when they came back there was a rare form of cancer, T-Cell Lymphoma of the skin. You know. So he came to me and was like, "We'll run some more tests.' So I said, 'Okay.' So we did the Cat Scan, the bone marrow, the AIDS test, everything.