Viewers have praised Trisha Goddard as she made her debut as a guest presenter on Good Morning Britain, days after she spoke about her terminal breast cancer diagnosis on the show.
The 66-year-old TV star - who fronted her own talk show in the ‘90s and 2000s - joined co-host Richard Madeley as a guest presenter on the 13th and 14th August. Speaking of Filling in for Kate Garraway, she said: "Not going to lie… started off a little bit nervous but Richard Madeley and the GMB team are just so sweet and supportive, so managed to get into my stride".
Trisha Goddard cancer diagnosis
Back in 2008, Trisha - who now lives in America - recovered from her first breast cancer diagnosis, only to be diagnosed with terminal metastatic breast cancer 16 years later, after falling in her home in Connecticut, US, back in 2022, where doctors found that it was in her hip.
Her treatment began in 2022, the morning after her fourth wedding. She underwent three weeks of daily radiation treatment and four months of weekly chemotherapy, before opting for ‘life prolonging care’.
"It’s not going to go away. And with that knowledge comes grief, and fear. But I must keep enjoying what I have always enjoyed," she told Hello! earlier this year.
Understandably, Trisha - who has two daughters Billie, 34, and Madison, 30, with her ex-husband Mark Grieve - chose to keep the news of her stage four cancer private from the public as well as her colleagues at CNN and TalkTV.
"I was grappling with how to deal with it myself. Plus I just wanted to work and be me,’ she said on GMB. ‘With CNN and my colleagues there, they didn’t know that I had no hair, that I had no feeling in my legs from the treatment, because I had chemo every week for four and a half months."
"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.’
However, it was 'difficult' for Trisha to keep her diagnosis a secret for so long, "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."
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