He lost his natural voice and had to use an electronic voice box to communicate, opening up about his struggles in his 2021 Prime documentary, Val. A voice box device is most commonly a battery ...

Newsweek Columnist, Vice President of Content at Salem Media Group and host of "Our American Stories" It was a poignant interview, the last Val Kilmer gave before losing his voice to throat cancer.

By 2020, Kilmer confirmed he had been cancer-free for four years, but the impact on his voice was irreversible. Kilmer's voice was affected after he had an emergency tracheotomy following a throat ...