I'm living day to day as I fight cancer, says chat host Trisha in emotional TV interview

11 April 2012
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TV presenter Trisha Goddard said today she is living "day to day" after being diagnosed with breast cancer.

The 50-year-old was told she had cancer in March after a lump was found during a routine mammogram.

In her first television interview since the diagnosis, she said: "I've got to say at the moment I do live from day to day.

"People ring up to say 'How are you'. I say 'Right here, right now, at this moment, fine.'

"How I'll be further into my chemo, I don't know."

Trisha Goddard gives GMTV her first TV interview since being diagnosed with breast cancer

Trisha Goddard gives GMTV her first TV interview since being diagnosed with breast cancer


Speaking from her Norwich home, she told GMTV: "I'll remember this time and keep my fitness going but I'll sort of just do little things now, no grand plans."

Goddard, who presents the channel Five show Trisha, went to hospital in early March to undergo an X-ray for a sporting injury.

While there, it was recommended that she check in for a routine mammogram.
On finding the lump in Goddard's breast, doctors removed it for a biopsy.

In today's pre-recorded interview she recalled the moment she was diagnosed with breast cancer.

"I just caught sight of the doctor's face and he said 'Look, I think it's breast cancer'," she said.

"The first operation, when I went into the operation I didn't know how I was going to come out.

Day to day: Trisha told GMTV's Fiona Philips that she is coping well and is fortunate that she is fit

Day to day: Trisha told GMTV's Fiona Philips that she is coping well and is fortunate that she is fit

"I didn't know how much of my breast I was going to have, whether it would be a lumpectomy, a partial mastectomy, a mastectomy, all the lymph nodes, I didn't know."

Goddard then underwent a second operation to remove lymph nodes from under her left arm.

The presenter, who publicly announced her illness in April, is now undergoing chemotherapy.

Goddard last month revealed a new blonde cropped hairstyle in preparation for the treatment.

She told GMTV: "I didn't want people snooping around my house as I've had before, trying to get shots of me.

"Peter my husband said 'Get it cut off, dye it blonde, release one photo to the press and say 'There you are'. So that's what I did.

"But I don't want to make it sound like it was all fun, fun, fun, I did have to get a bit drunk to do it."

The mother-of-two said her daughters, Billie, 18, and Madison, 14, are coping well.

"They both said to me 'If you were a sort of waily or sitting sad and down, Mummy, then we would be worried,' but the fact is you know that I kick them out of bed at 10 in the morning when I've come back from my gym session and I'm about to go for my run.

"They look at me and I think children do gauge how you're dealing with it. They pick up signals from that."

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