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Jade Goody bares her sole on her cancer
battle
London:
Cancer-struck Jade Goody has spoken on television
for the first time about how doctors initially gave
her the all clear and sent her away with pain killers
for period pains. In an exclusive GMTV interview,
Goody told Fiona Phillips that her painful symptoms
were dismissed just before she went into the Indian
Big Brother house last month despite having pre-cancerous
cells at 16, 18 and after having children. "I was
in hospital for a week, and they didn't do anything
because they didn't know what it was, even though
it was the fourth time I had been there for the same
reason," the Mirror quoted her, as saying. "They did
a belly scan and everything was fine, even my blood,
so they said to me it was either a bad period or stress.
"In the end I began to feel really frustrated, like
they were insulting my intelligence, I thought they
thought I was being a hypochondriac and lying about
it. "I made a conscious effort to tell them that I
was going away for a long period of time and they
wouldn't be able to get in touch, and would that be
OK. They said I was fine and I was fit and healthy,"
she added. Goody was informed about her disease in
the Diary Room of the Indian Big Brother house. However,
she initially thought it was some kind of hoax and
had no idea she was being filmed. "My first thought
was cancer, chemo, death, because that's all I know
of it," she said. "I didn't know it was being filmed
either, and that conversation I was having was actually
to my agent, it wasn't to my doctor. "[The producers]
wanted me to go out and tell everybody. I was like,
"I can't do that, I need my family and friends to
know before I just randomly say it on television."
"And it was really horrible, it was really, really
hard because I had no one, at that time when you found
out all you want is a cuddle or something, and I had
nothing," she added. Goody said that the doctors told
her the cancer was in the early stages but it's now
emerged that it's advanced and has gone from her womb
into her blood stream. "I've got to go tomorrow to
find out what treatment I need. The doctor's told
me over the phone, but he wants to sit me down and
tell me step by step because it's quite sensitive,"
she said. The 27-year-old star, who now faces having
a hysterectomy, said the blow had brought her closer
to her two sons Bobby, five, and three-year-old Freddie.
"I realise that when I'm with my boys - I've spent
the whole week away with them doing things like rock
climbing which I wouldn't ever normally do. It makes
me smile and it makes me forget for a bit." Goody,
who is rumoured to be making a reality TV show documenting
her battle with the disease, has dismissed the reports.
"I'm not doing a TV show out of this. I was filming
before and it all finished when I went to India,"
she said. "I would never do that, it's something that
I need to go through on my own and get strong," she
added.
-Sept 2, 2008
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