New
York
(ANI):
Legendary
Hollywood
star
Paul
Newman
added
fuel
to
speculations
that
he
is
suffering
from
cancer
or
serious
blood
diseases
by
absenting
himself
from
a
City
Center
event
for
his
Hole
in
the
Wall
Gang
Camps
for
kids
on
Monday.
Concerns
about
the
83-year-old
actor's
health
were
first
raised
in
January,
when
a
report
said
that
he
had
undergone
surgery
for
an
unnamed
cancer
at
a
New
York
hospital.
That
report
was
slammed
by
Newman's
representative
Warren
Cowan,
who
suggested
that
the
actor
was
being
treated
for
athlete's
foot
and
hair
loss
at
that
time.
This
time
again,
Cowan
said
that
Newman
was
having
a
different
trouble.
"He's
having
back
problems.
He
has
to
stay
off
his
feet
for
a
couple
of
weeks," the
New
York
Daily
News
quoted
him
as
saying.
Newman,
however,
sent
a
taped
message
to
the
Hole
in
the
Wall
fund-raiser,
where
recovering
children
shared
the
stage
with
the
likes
of
Julia
Roberts,
Renee
Zellweger,
Carole
King,
Bernadette
Peters,
Nathan
Lane
and
James
Naughton.
The
report
also
says
that
the
Oscar-winning
actor's
back
problems
also
forced
him
to
bow
out
of
an
appearance
on
"Late
Show
With
David
Letterman".