00:00The amount of people that come in, because of the King being so open about his diagnosis and having a
00:07productive life.
00:08Look at my husband. Nothing stopped him. He just said, this is my way, I'm going to cope with it.
00:14The number of male users of Maggie's has gone up. We had a 12% increase of men coming in.
00:22I remember coming to see our Maggie's just after the King being diagnosed. Nobody could say anything at the time.
00:30That was quite difficult.
00:32I almost said something, but I felt that it wasn't the time to say.
00:38I looked at everybody who was suffering and all the relations, and I think it made me realise even more
00:45how important these places were.
00:47And it was just a week before it became public, and the courage that that must have taken for you
00:55to make that visit.
00:56I was just longing to let it out, but obviously I couldn't.
01:01The more open that you are when you're talking about it, the less scary cancer can become.
01:08And so if you just keep the lid on it, it can build up.
01:10But on that visit, you did sit with some centre visitors, and again, you know, the empathy and support that
01:18you were able to offer was...
01:19Well, you know, I was almost questioning them.
01:21You know, I didn't want to pry too deeply, but normally when I went in, I was just talking to
01:30them, but I don't know, I felt it was much more deep.
01:33You know, I felt it was much more deep.
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