The husband of Dame Deborah James said she died in "one of the best ways you could have hoped to die with this terrible disease", in his first interview since her death. Dame Deborah, known by her social media handle Bowelbabe and a presenter of the You, Me And The Big C podcast, died last June at the age of 40 after being diagnosed with bowel cancer five years earlier.
In a pre-recorded interview shared on BBC Breakfast, Sebastien Bowen spoke of her death for the first time publicly after it was revealed that his late wife's Bowelbabe Fund for Cancer Research UK had raised more than £11 million.
"It was just such a difficult, difficult time. It’s difficult to articulate how hard it really was," he said. "I think she died in probably one of the best ways that you could have hoped to die with this terrible disease. She died surrounded by her mother, her father, her sister, me, all of us holding her hand, being there for her.
