Jerry Jones is lifting the lid on his secret battle with cancer. The loquacious Dallas Cowboys owner, 82, told The Dallas Morning News he was diagnosed with stage 4 melanoma in June 2010 and survived a decade-long fight thanks to an experimental drug.

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones credits an experimental trial drug for successfully treating advanced melanoma as he disclosed his cancer diagnosis publicly for the first time.

Turns out, there are things that Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones does not tell the media. And this was a big thing. The 82-year-old revealed to the Dallas Morning News on Wednesday that he survived Stage 4 melanoma, thanks to an experimental trial at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.