I was on my way to pick up my 10-year-old daughter, Freya, from a birthday party when I received the news I might have cancer. I said to the doctor, “I don’t have time for cancer,” and he said, “Well, you’re going to have to make a bit of time.”
I was devastated, it felt like the rug had been pulled from underneath me. Everything I’d assumed about my life was gone in that instant. I was going to live this long and happy life and all of a sudden it was like,“Well that might not happen”. I literally had to plaster