Trisha Goddard emotionally announces breast cancer has returned
18.02.2024 - 22:37
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
Trisha Goddard has emotionally revealed that her breast cancer has returned. The TV presenter has vowed to "keep enjoying what I have always enjoyed", with the 66-year-old first diagnosed in 2008.
The former Channel 5 talk show presenter, who previously hosted BAFTA award winning show Trisha on ITV, discovered the cancer had returned 19 months ago but has only gone public with her health now.
"It's not going to go away," she said flatly. "And with that knowledge comes grief, and fear. But I must keep enjoying what I have always enjoyed." Trisha has stage four breast cancer, for which there is no cure, according to the Mirror.
Trisha explained she decided to go public with the news after feeling the pressure of keeping it all to herself. However she says she does not want to be seen as 'frail' by those closest to her and her fans.
Opening up to HELLO!, the TV icon said she was tired of hiding her health issues explaining: "I can't lie; I can't keep making up stories. It gets to a stage, after a year and a half, when keeping a secret becomes more of a burden than anything else."
Sharing her concerns about her diagnosis, she continued: "My worry is that people will start seeing me as a frail little thing, and that if [the news] got out, I'd be judged, or people would change the way they are with me, or that I wouldn't work," she says. "I'm a journalist; I don't want to be 'the story'. I don't want to be interviewing someone and for them to say to me: 'I'm so sorry.'"
Trisha took to Instagram to share news about her diagnosis and her interview with the publication where she showed her short hair. She wrote: "Doing this is tough. .. I’ve been keeping a difficult secret for 19 months now, but like my new hairstyle – I can’t hide