This Morning star Maddy Anholt's heartbreaking final post amid secret cancer battle
14.09.2023 - 14:43
/ ok.co.uk
This Morning star Maddy Anholt made a heartbreaking final Instagram post ten weeks before she passed away after a secret battle with brain cancer. The actress and writer, who starred in a number of BBC, ITV and Channel 4 sitcoms and was a regular guest on This Morning, passed away at age 35 on Wednesday, September 13, just one year after welcoming her daughter Opal.
In a statement announcing her death, her family revealed that she had got the "rare and aggressive" brain cancer diagnosis shortly after the birth of her daughter. Maddy never publicly announced her brain cancer diagnosis, and prior to a post on 30 June, she hadn't posted on Instagram since October 2022, presumably around the time of her diagnosis.
However, the post on 30 June would suggest that she was positively looking toward the future as she spoke about a book that she had been writing. Sharing a clip of herself in black and white on a newspaper clipping, Maddy wrote: "I've been quietly working away on this amongst other things.
Delighted to say my first fiction will be published next year by an incredible team @uclan_publishing @ampliterary watch this space, as they say. #newbook #bookstagram #newrelease #booklover #author #authorsofinstagram " Since the news of her death broke, her followers have rushed to the comments section, with two writing: "R.I.P".
Maddy's family announced the sad news of her death on GoFundMe, where they wrote: "It is with profound sorrow that we announce the death of Maddy Anholt, our beloved daughter, sister, twin, friend, wife and mother, who left this world on Wednesday 13th September, aged 35. "You may know that shortly after the birth of her incredible daughter Opal last year, Maddy was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive
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