Read said he wasn’t afraid to die, but did not want to die in a pool of his own blood.
He also blamed Jimmy Loughnan – a now dead criminal associate – for ruining any chance he had of a liver transplant.
Read said Loughnan stabbed him nine times in a prison fight, which was depicted in the Chopper film.
He has too much scar tissue around his liver to enable the operation.
Read said the toxins in his body could not be processed by his liver.
