Trisha Goddard has painfully revealed that there is absolutely no hope for survival for her this time round after second cancer diagnosis.
The celebrated media personality has been diagnosed with incurable cancer after initially overcoming the disease back in 2008.
Speaking during an interview in Hello magazine, the TV presenter explained she had received the news around 19 months ago but has now decided to speak out as she doesn’t want to lie about her illness anymore.
“I can’t lie. I can’t keep making up stories,” Goddard said.
“It gets to a stage, after a year and a half, when keeping a secret becomes more of a burden than anything else,” she continued. “I’m nervous. But it needed to be done.”
The 66-year-old British TV personality had originally been diagnosed with breast cancer back in 2008, and has since learned that the disease has returned after undergoing treatment for a fall.
The former chat show host has been diagnosed with secondary breast cancer (also known as metastatic or stage 4 cancer) after cancer cells were discovered in her right hip bone.
Treatment options are available for the illness, but there is no cure.
“It’s not going to go away. And with that knowledge comes grief, and fear. But I must keep enjoying what I have always enjoyed,” she said.
Goddard went on to explain that she does not want to be a poster girl for cancer nor does she want to be described with words such as “dying” and “terminal” or “battling”.
“My worry is that people will start seeing me as a frail little thing… [that] I’d be judged,” she said.
