Lorraine: Sarah Beeny gives update on cancer diagnosis
Property expert Sarah Beeny, 51, has opened up about how “shocked” she was to discover that her late mother’s medical records were riddled with “misogyny”.
Sarah announced in August 2022 that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer, and has recently been working with Channel 4 to show every part of her “gruelling journey close up and with remarkable honesty”.
Ahead of the release of her documentary, Sarah Beeny vs Cancer, tonight, the presenter revealed to The Guardian that she had searched through her mum’s documents to get clarity on cancer treatments.
She said: “I suppose, if I’m honest, I wanted to get her records to go: ‘She had that treatment and it didn’t work. But I’m having this treatment, and therefore it will work because now it’s better.’
“I wanted to prove that I was going to get better, to myself.”
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“I was quite shocked by how they talked about her, because we’ve come a long way,” she said.
“Loads of things they didn’t tell her. Misogyny, alive and kicking.”
“The chemotherapy she had would have made her infertile, but they didn’t bother telling her,” she added.
Later in the piece, she said that although her mother died when she was 10, she “wouldn’t change a thing” because “life has its weird ways of being what it is”.
She stated: “If my mother hadn’t died, I probably wouldn’t have met [husband] Graham, because I’d probably have gone to a different school.”
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The admission comes ahead of Sarah’s “deeply personal documentary”, Sarah Beeny vs Cancer, premiering via Channel 4 tonight.
During the show, she unearths the aforementioned medical records and chats with an oncologist about “how different the treatment would have been today” if her mother was to be diagnosed with cancer today.
“I thought, if I’m going to tell a story, I might as well tell a true one,” she said.
Elsewhere in the documentary, Beeny opens up about the gruelling treatment she has had to treat her breast cancer, and how it took getting ill to end four decades-worth of fear.
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“I’ve always been in a hurry. My mum died when she was 39; I think I’ve always assumed that I would die at 39, so I’ve always been very impatient, trying to fit loads of stuff in.”
Last month, the 51-year-old revealed that she had been given the all-clear after undergoing chemotherapy and a double mastectomy.
Appearing on Lorraine, she told ITV viewers: “I feel very fortunate that I had the diagnosis that I did, and that I live in 2022-23, and that I’m the age I am. So many things that I’m fortunate for.”
You can watch Channel 4’s Sarah Beeny vs Cancer at 9 pm on Monday 12 June.
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