Kylie Minogue cries while talking about cancer battle

The singer got emotional as she revealed how she talked to the parents of a young child with cancer after beginning treatment herself at a Melbourne hospital five years ago.

Minogue, now almost five years free of the disease, said: “I remember one moment there where I was talking to some parents across the other side of a bed and their child was there, between us.

“I was saying the things I would normally say in that situation, making conversation with the children and talking to the parents, giving them some support as well.

“Then they really caught me off guard. They just eyeballed me and said, ‘And how are you?’ and, ‘We hope you get better’.”

When the interviewer told her how she inspired other women to be tested for breast cancer, Minogue got up and walked out of the room for almost a minute before returning.

When she came back she said: “OK, let me just tell you the reason that gets to me, it's the greatest part of my job and what I do is the humanity of it. And there are certain moments when that really cuts through.”

'I hadn’t really had time to give a thought about that until I was telling you. It just stops me in my tracks. I hadn’t thought about that since then.”