Barbara Walters has landed the first television interview with actor Patrick Swayze since his diagnosis with inoperable pancreatic cancer last year.

The Dirty Dancing star is said to reveal all in the ABC special Patrick Swayze: The Truth tomorrow night.

Last March, doctors discovered that the beloved actor’s cancer was in Stage 4 and had already spread to his liver. He has lived for nearly a year.

“I tried to have champagne, and it would be like pouring acid, you know, on an open wound.”

“My indigestion issues got gigantic and constant. And then I started thinking, I’m getting skinny. I dropped about 20 pounds in the blink of an eye. And then when you see it in the mirror, when all of a sudden, you pull your eyes down and the bottom of your eyes go yellow and jaundice sets in — then you know something’s wrong.”

“I started doing a little research and started realizing this is not pretty. This is not a good thing.”

Nonetheless, the Ghost star is preparing for the debut of his new FBI drama The Beast on A&E.

Last July, Patrick began a grueling schedule of five months of filming in Chicago, oftern working 12 hours or more each day.

“I think everybody thought I was out of my mind, you know, thinking I’m gonna pull off a TV show,” he says.

“What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what’s thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.”

Barbara Walters Special-Patrick Swayze: The Truth will air Wednesday, January 7 at 10/9 on ABC.