Countdown favourite Carol Vorderman has revealed that her mum is battling terminal cancer. Carol shared the new with her thousands of fans on social media today. She said that this Mother’s Day would be extra special given that her beloved mother has just been announced with the disease. ‘A precious Mother’s Day x This wk Mum & I found out she has terminal cancer.She’s 88, beautiful inside and out & I love her beyond measure x.’
The maths beauty first revealed that her mum was suffering from cancer last you but they had thought that the disease was under control. She previously tweeted ‘Mum has had a 3lb ovarian tumour removed (miraculously it hadn’t spread) then she had kidney cancer so half of her right kidney was removed, this time it’s a pretty big malignant melanoma, but Mum says “goodness me, this is nothing. I’ll be in and out in no time.”
Carol has spoken in the past about the special bond she has with her mother who raised her and her siblings as a single parent in the 1970s. She disclosed in an interview with the Guardian that her father didn’t want anything to do with their family after she was born – despite sticking around to raise her brother and sister.