Janey Godley says she accepts she 'may be facing death' amid cancer battle

Comedian Janey Godley has told fans that she has had “an epiphany” and has accepted she “may be facing death” as she battles cancer.

The 60-year-old revealed last year that she had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer and that she needed a hysterectomy.

The Scottish star has now updated her Facebook followers in a moving post.

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Sharing a snap of her cuddled up with her dog Honey, she posted: “I think I’ve had an epiphany, I have been resisting the fact I have a life threatening cancer, I have tried to ‘fight and be strong’ instead of accepting that this whole year I just may be facing death or survival of something I have no real control over.”

She went on: “I appreciate all the amazing support and I believe my mental health will improve if I just lean into the fact that this cancer is happening - I am not alone, millions of people survive this disease and living with it isn’t a failure - maybe I don’t have to fight everything that happens to me and trust the science?”

Godley previously said she went public to highlight her symptoms - bloating, stomach pain, tiredness and needing to urinate more - as she urged other women not to delay getting checked out if they felt the same.

Speaking on ITV's Lorraine, she said: "I remember walking through Soho and I had this horrible pain in my stomach and I was bloated - I felt about seven months pregnant and I was weeing all the time. I just didn't feel right and my goodness I could have slept, something was definitely wrong."

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She added: "When I got home from London and I called my GP and took some blood tests.

"The very next day I got the results back which showed a hormone there that was problematic. I went into hospital for scans, and then they discovered a sac on my ovary and they said this is ovarian cancer."

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