Rocky star Dolph Lundgren in Miami with wife

Dolph Lundgren during TV-Gala “Sing against Cancer” in Stockholm, Sweden on January 6, 2025. Dolph Lundgren, star of “Rocky IV”, in remission from a cancer that gave him “only three years to live”. Photo by Carl-Erik Paulin/Stella Pictures/Abaca/Sipa USA Abaca Press Stella Pictures/Abaca/Sipa USA

After a years-long health battle, Dolph Lundgren was seen in Miami Beach on Tuesday looking plenty fit.

The “Expendables” star, 67, was snapped by paps while he swam in the surf and lounged on the sand in front of the Faena hotel with his wife, Norwegian personal trainer Emma Krokdal, 28.

The following day, Lundgren was honored at a fundraiser at the Bath Club for his work with CHILDHELP, a nonprofit dedicated to preventing child abuse and neglect.

Lundgren posted snippets from the fancy event as well as two pictures taken in Faena’s famously ornate lobby. The caption says that “the cause is very close to my heart and something I’ve experienced personally.”

The six-foot-five-inch actor has been open about how his father used to beat him regularly when he was a child.

“He had a lot of issues,” the Stockholm native told journalist Graham Bensinger in a 2023 interview. “It does a number on you as a kid.”

Lundgren was able to turn a negative into a positive — learning martial arts to work out his anger and pivot to a Hollywood career.

“it gave me an ambition to succeed to prove to the world I wasn’t a loser,” the father of two told Bensinger. “He helped me in that respect.”

Speaking of positive news, the “Rocky IV” star who played Drago, yes, 40 years ago announced last November that after a multiyear health battle, he was “cancer free.” Lundgren was first diagnosed in 2015, with doctors telling him he only had about three years to live after a tumor was found in his kidney.

“It’s been a rough ride,” he said from a hospital bed at UCLA in an Instagram video. “It really taught me to live in the moment and enjoy every moment of life. It’s the only way to go.”

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *