Trisha Goddard explains why she kept cancer diagnosis secret for so long

Trisha Goddard explains why she kept cancer diagnosis secret for so long  ITV

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00:00I was grappling with how to deal with it myself.

00:04Plus, I just wanted to work and be me.

00:09I mean, you know, we were talking in the break,

00:11with CNN and my colleagues there,

00:13they didn't know that I had no hair,

00:16that I had no feeling in my legs,

00:18that I was just-

00:19From the treatment.

00:20From the treatment.

00:21I had chemo every week for four and a half months.

00:25And I was telling that story about one of my,

00:27I shouldn't say, one of my colleagues,

00:31name drop, Don Lemon at CNN,

00:33he was very sweet, and we were on air,

00:35and he went, nose, nose, nose.

00:38Because you were having a nosebleed.

00:39Complete, because chemo, you get these nosebleeds.

00:42And so I quickly wiped it up,

00:44and I said to my husband afterwards,

00:45I'm mortified Don saw me have this nosebleed.

00:48And he said, oh, it's all right, honey.

00:50He probably just thinks you're one of these high flyers

00:52who was doing coke all night.

00:53You're probably cool.

00:54I was like, oh!