HEARTBREAKING: Lauren Laverne shares emotional health update after devastating c@ncer news
Lauren Laverne shared an update after her cancer diagnosis (Image: Getty)
Lauren Laverne has shared an emotional health update as she gave an insight into her life amid her cancer battle. The 47-year-old BBC presenter revealed she had been diagnosed with a form of the disease back in 2024 before being given the all-clear, and she later confirmed she was also coping with a rare blood and bone marrow disorder called smouldering myeloma. Now Lauren has explained that spending time outside in her garden has served as a form of “therapy” during the difficult period she has endured over recent years.
During an appearance on the Outsiding with Adam Frost and Caitlin Moran podcast, Lauren 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 time outdoors. I mean, so in, oh God, the past eight years. So, you know, lost my mam and dad, they both died. And then, you know, I got cancer and have been through lots of different health challenges with like recovery and things like that.
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“It’s been really important to have the garden, I’ve spent more and more time out there.” Lauren went on to disclose that she spent a month in hospital throughout her cancer battle, recalling how she would gaze longingly out of the window, yearning to be outdoors.
She said: “‘I mean I was in hospital when I had cancer for a month. And it was this time of year so I was like looking out onto this heatwave, I was right in this big hospital in London looking out into a big park and I just, I couldn’t feel it. “I just remember thinking – God you know I’ve been the same temperature for like weeks and weeks and weeks and the artificial light and everything it’s very strange.
“And so I think when I got home I just wanted to be outside. And also like say if you’re going through something really difficult, maybe you’ve had adiagnosis or, you know, you’ve lost someone or something like that and then you go to a party, you feel like you’re really out of place.”
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Or if you go to work, like, you’re kind of on a different time zone to everybody there so you sort of feel like you don’t fit, but the funny thing about being outdoors you can feel however you want to feel and it’s alright. “. Lauren previously opened up about being diagnosed with smouldering myeloma – an early form of the blood cancer myeloma in which abnormal cells can be detected in the bone marrow and abnormal protein is found in the blood and/or urine.. She stressed her condition is unrelated to either her previous cancer diagnosis and her individual risk of developing blood cancer is “pretty low”.
