HEARTBREAKING: BBC Broadcaster Lauren Laverne Shares ‘Difficult’ Health Update After Accident
Lauren Laverne appeared on the Outsiding podcast (Image: Getty)
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BBC presenter Lauren Laverne has issued a “tricky” update on her life after being diagnosed with an incurable disease. The radio host, 48, was recently diagnosed with smouldering myeloma – an asymptomatic blood and bone marrow disorder that can develop into blood cancer, though Lauren’s risk is “pretty low”. The Desert Island Discs star was previously diagnosed with cancer, and beat the disease, which was “caught early”.
Now she has issued a further update while appearing on the Outsiding podcast, hosted by Adam Frost and Caitlin Moran. In the latest episode of the show, Lauren said she has turned to gardening as a form of “therapy” after struggling “over the last few years”.
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She said: “My garden has been massive therapy for me. I mean, I’ve had a tricky time over the last few years. And so I’ve spent more and more and more time outside. I think the older I’ve got, the more I’ve needed that, you know, needed that time outdoors.”
Lauren explained that in the “last eight years” she lost both her parents before her own cancer diagnosis, explaining: “I lost my mam and dad, they both died. And then, you know, I got cancer and been through lots of different health challenges with like recovery and things like that.
“It’s been really important to have the garden, I’ve spent more and more time out there.”
She went on: “I mean I was in hospital when I had cancer, for a month. And it was it was this time of year so I was, like, looking out onto this heatwave, you know, I was right in this big hospital in London, looking out into a big park and I just, I couldn’t feel it, you know.
“I just remember thinking, ‘God, I’ve been the same temperature for weeks and weeks and weeks, and the artificial light and everything, it’s very strange.’
Lauren uses gardening as therapy (Image: Getty)
“So I think when I got home I just wanted to be outside, and also if you’re going through something really difficult, maybe you’ve had a diagnosis or you’ve lost someone or something like that, and then you go to a party… you feel like you’re really out of place, because the party is the place where everybody’s supposed to be having fun.
“Or if you go to work, you’re kind of on a different time zone to everybody there so you sort of feel like you don’ fit, but the funny thing about being outdoors and outside, especially in gardens, is that they meet you like wherever you are. You can feel however you want to feel.”
Lauren added: “You’re back on natural time, out in that environment. It reminded me that we’re just little creatures. And if we get hurt or if we go through something difficult, we need the time that we need to recuperate and heal.”
