TV presenter and property expert Sarah Beeny announced she has been given the all-clear from doctors following her breast cancer diagnosis last year.
The 51-year-old, best known for appearing on Help! My House Is Falling Down and Sarah Beeny’s New Life In The Country, said she had received the positive news over the last few days, but that it has not always been an easy journey.
Appearing on ITV's Lorraine on Friday, alongside her sons Billy and Raffy, Sarah tearfully told stand-in host Christine Lampard that recent months have been a “rollercoaster ride” for her and her family.
She said: “But I feel very fortunate that I had the diagnosis that I did, and that I live in 2023 and that I’m the age that I am. So many things I’m fortunate for, so I feel very blessed.”
Asked how she feels after being given the all-clear, she added: “Weird. It’s good but it’s weird.
“They kind of go, ‘That’s it then, that’s the end of that’. And you kind of go, ‘How do you know?’ and they go ‘We don’t, we just kind of think so’.”
Sarah, who has undergone chemotherapy, said she would have to take medication for the next 10 years and remain “very vigilant”.
“But, yeah, it’s been a weird ride that I wouldn’t wish on anyone else but I’m glad I did it rather than somebody else,” she added.
She also thanked the NHS and staff at Yeovil Hospital and the Royal Marsden Hospital for the care she received during the tough few months.
Sarah previously told how she kept her cancer diagnosis from her husband and kids because she "needed to handle it in her own head before telling them".
She cut off some of her hair prior to treatment and has since embraced going bald. She said: "It’s weird because I was trying to work out why losing your hair is so traumatic, because it shouldn’t be.
"It’s only hair isn’t it? I think it’s wrong we should feel so much shame… I thought, I have a tannoy and an option to speak about this, and I think if it helps one person… Maybe just because I feel it’s a bit empowering for me and maybe it’s a bit empowering for someone else to look at it and go, 'Okay, you know what, I can just go out with a bald head too.'"
Her family will appear in a new series of Sarah Beeny’s New Life In The Country, which was filmed before her diagnosis.
When she was 10, Sarah lost her mum at the age of 39 to breast cancer. She has four children Rafferty, Laurie, Billy and Charlie to husband and artist Graham Swift, who she tied the knot with in 2003.
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