Trisha Goddard explains why she kept cancer diagnosis secret for so long
Trisha Goddard explains why she kept cancer diagnosis secret for so long ITV
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00:00I was grappling with how to deal with it myself.
00:04Plus, I just wanted to work and be me.
00:09I mean, you know, we were talking in the break,
00:11with CNN and my colleagues there,
00:13they didn't know that I had no hair,
00:16that I had no feeling in my legs,
00:18that I was just-
00:19From the treatment.
00:20From the treatment.
00:21I had chemo every week for four and a half months.
00:25And I was telling that story about one of my,
00:27I shouldn't say, one of my colleagues,
00:31name drop, Don Lemon at CNN,
00:33he was very sweet, and we were on air,
00:35and he went, nose, nose, nose.
00:38Because you were having a nosebleed.
00:39Complete, because chemo, you get these nosebleeds.
00:42And so I quickly wiped it up,
00:44and I said to my husband afterwards,
00:45I'm mortified Don saw me have this nosebleed.
00:48And he said, oh, it's all right, honey.
00:50He probably just thinks you're one of these high flyers
00:52who was doing coke all night.
00:53You're probably cool.
00:54I was like, oh!