Comedian Janey Godley receiving end-of-life care for cancer | Scotland

The comic Janey Godley has revealed she is receiving end-of-life care after her terminal most cancers unfold.

The 63-year-old introduced she could be getting palliative care and going right into a hospice in a video shared on social media on Wednesday.

Godley thanked the NHS and those that have cared for her in addition to her household, associates and followers for his or her help. The Scottish comic stated within the video: “So I’m now in palliative care and I’m at end-of-life care now within the hospital. The chemo ran out of choices and I simply couldn’t take any extra of it and the most cancers has unfold.

“So it seems like this shall be getting to close the tip of it and it’s actually tough to discuss this and say to folks.”

Godley, who discovered viral fame together with her dubbed pastiches of Nicola Sturgeon’s coronavirus information briefings in the course of the pandemic, revealed she had ovarian most cancers in November 2021.

She was given the all-clear in 2022. Nonetheless, she later introduced that one other scan had proven indicators of the illness in her stomach.

Earlier this month, she cancelled her forthcoming tour this autumn attributable to her stage 4 ovarian most cancers, which had been saved at bay via NHS remedy over the previous couple of years and had returned with a number of added problems.

Within the new video, she added: “It’s devastating information to know that I’m going through end-of-life however all of us come to an finish someday. I wish to thank everyone for supporting the household, particularly [her daughter] Ashley and my husband.

“The overwhelming help has been wonderful, and I don’t understand how lengthy I’ve bought left earlier than anyone asks. I’m not a TikTok. So I simply need you to know that I admire all of the love you’ve gave me and all of the help. Most cancers impacts two in a single folks, and it’s affected me.”

Many associates and celebrities replied to Godley’s submit supporting her, together with the TV chef Nigella Lawson, the comic Dom Joly and Sturgeon. The previous Scottish first minister wrote: “Sending you a lot love, my pal. You’re an inspiration.”

Lawson wrote: “Oh Janey, that is heart-breaking. Thanks for all you’ve given the world – and for being you.”

Born in poverty in Glasgow in 1961, Godley went on to turn out to be an everyday co-presenter on BBC Radio 4’s Free Ends, in addition to fronting BBC Radio 4 collection The C Bomb. The comic was photographed at Turnberry golf resort in Ayr, on the West Coast of Scotland, together with her notorious “unwelcome” signal for Donald Trump in 2016.

Extra reporting by PA Media