GUTSY Miami Vice legend Edward James Olmos beat deadly throat cancer, but confesses he thought he was a goner when his radiation and chemotherapy-ravaged body “gave up” from the treatments.
The 77-year-old actor, who also starred in Harrison Ford’s iconic Blade Runner, says he felt his body had nothing left 16 months ago after the draining treatments left him so weak, he feared he wouldn’t wake up the next morning.
“That entered my mind many, many times throughout the process, because you can't swallow, you can’t talk, you can’t eat, you can’t drink, you can’t do anything,” he says.
“I had my last treatment on Dec. 20, 2022, and the next two, three months were the hardest of the entire journey.
“Once they stopped all of the chemo, all the…
