DETROIT — Following an incredible online outpouring of emotion and support in the wake of his admission on a podcast that he has five years to live due to his cancer diagnosis, Royal Oak-born actor and cult movie icon Bruce Campbell said it's time for him to move forward.

"Cancer is all the rage, but I've said plenty and I need to get back to the business of living," Campbell said on X in the wee hours of Saturday morning, quote-tweeting a USA Today story about his podcast appearance earlier this week.

Campbell shared the news of his timeline during a sit down on "The Adam Carolla Show" which was posted Sept. 3.

"The current thing is a five-year deal," Campbell told Carolla during the episode.

"So the prognosis is you have five years to live?" Carolla asked Campbell.

"Give or take," Campbell said.

The news hit the internet on Sept. 4, and a wave of appreciation for the "Evil Dead" star, 68, flooded social media.

"The day this man dies, the entire nation will mourn," one user wrote on X, one of thousands of messages of appreciation for the actor posted to the social media network. "Bruce Campbell is one of the best celebrities in Hollywood and it will be a sad day in history when he passes."

"Man.... let's cherish this man for as long as we can," another user wrote on X. "We don't have as much time as we like to think we do."

Campbell is currently promoting "Ernie & Emma," a comic drama he wrote, directed, produced and stars in, about a man who goes on a road trip with his wife's ashes following her death.

He showed the film earlier this year at Detroit's Redford Theatre to a packed audience which included Sam Raimi, Campbell's "Evil Dead" director and childhood friend.

Campbell announced in March that he has been diagnosed with a "treatable" but not "curable" form of cancer. He has not disclosed the type of cancer with which he has been diagnosed.

That announcement, too, resulted in a wave of appreciation for the actor, which he talked about with The Detroit News in May.

"If I knew how much free publicity I was going to get," Campbell said, "I would have gotten cancer a long time ago!"

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