Jade Goody: Only months to live

**Cate** · February 13th, 2009, 09:58 PM

Jade's going home.. they'll do the very best they can for her By MIKE SULLIVAN
and RICHARD WHITE

Published: Today
STRICKEN Jade Goody is desperate to return home so she can spend her remaining time with her two young sons.

Complications from her cancer have kept the Big Brother star in hospital, where saddened doctors this week told her they are now powerless to stop the disease spreading.

But medics are hopeful the 27-year-old could yet return to her family’s Essex home and receive treatment from a community Macmillan nurse.

That would allow her to be with her beloved boys Bobby, five, and four-year-old Freddie — who visited her yesterday.

Tragic Jade is also making plans to wed. She and boyfriend Jack Tweed, 21, will tie the knot “in the next few weeks”, her spokesman Max Clifford said last night.

Yesterday tears flowed as Jade’s sons kissed and hugged her after attending a school play. Their mum had pleaded with medics: “I want my boys with me.”

The tragic truth about Jade’s condition emerged on Tuesday when she asked why no more chemotherapy was planned for her next week.

Fighting

Staff at Chelsea’s Royal Marsden Hospital warned her the truth would be hard to take, but she begged to be told.

A member of the medical team she trusted then gently explained that chemo was now unable to stop her cancer spreading.

Instead, doctors’ concern now is to make her comfortable and ease the pain in the months — or even weeks — before she passes away.

Jade, cruelly robbed of her hair by gruelling sessions of chemotherapy, has drawn up a will from her hospital bed leaving her estate to her sons.

She is being comforted in a private room by mum Jackiey Budden, 50, and boyfriend Jack.

But he has to leave at 3pm daily to get home and comply with the conditions of his prison electronic-tag curfew.

A friend said: “Jade is still fighting, but she knows in her heart there’s no chance of getting out of this situation. All doctors can do is try and make her comfortable.

“It is going to be weeks now. Because she is still a young woman, the cancer cells are growing rapidly.

“A solicitor came into hospital this week.

“Jade has drawn up a will leaving her money in a trust fund for the boys.”

Jade, diagnosed with cervical cancer last August, has continued with media interviews despite her illness to make as much money as possible to leave behind for Bobby and Freddie.

Mr Clifford said: “Selling the rights to her wedding would be a sure fire way of earning a big amount of money.”

Care arrangements for her sons have been drawn up between Jackiey, Jack and the boys’ TV presenter father Jeff Brazier.

The source added: “Jade is very frightened of dying in hospital and wants to spend what time she has left at home with her boys and family close to her.”

Staff decided not to risk any more chemotherapy on Jade’s shattered body and are instead concentrating on palliative care.

They broke the news on Tuesday that earlier hopes of recovery had been dashed by the spread of the disease into her groin, liver and bowel.

Oncologists believe it is highly likely it has also spread to her brain and bones.

The Sun revealed earlier this month that Jade’s cancer had spread.

She sobbed, “I don’t want to die” as doctors told her the devastating news.

Cancer-stricken Jade Goody is told she only has months to live | The Sun |News

**Palermo** · February 13th, 2009, 10:02 PM

How awful. Too young and leaving little boys behind

**buttmunch** · February 13th, 2009, 10:06 PM

The first true reality tv star, living the dream right up through death. I wonder if there is a lesson in here somewhere?

**MoodyJenny86** · February 13th, 2009, 10:22 PM

I'm not really all that familiar with her other than in the tabloids and obviously her cancer fight but this is so sad...

It just goes to show...whether you're famous or not cancer's a bitch!

**buttmunch** · February 13th, 2009, 10:23 PM

I wonder if everyone will forget her little foray into being a racist bitch from hell...which she of course was very, very sorry about.

**Chimera** · February 13th, 2009, 10:25 PM

If she dies I'll eat my hat.

**buttmunch** · February 13th, 2009, 10:33 PM

I'm just a tad irritated by the tabs gushing all over her like she's some doomed heroine straight out of a Bronte novel when really, all she is is some half wit who got some semblance of notoriety by appearing on a reality show and parlayed it into a few bad relationships, a hair salon, a perfume and a few more appearances on reality tv, culminating in her being exposed as a racist bully, which is ironic considering she's part b black. I don't wish her ill but certainly can't understand this deification that is going on.

**msdeb** · February 13th, 2009, 11:10 PM

i read the online papers and sheesh, you'd think this woman is the female Jesus, the way they are all talking.

**Alleycat** · February 14th, 2009, 03:14 AM

Originally Posted by buttmunch

I'm just a tad irritated by the tabs gushing all over her like she's some doomed heroine straight out of a Bronte novel when really, all she is is some half wit who got some semblance of notoriety by appearing on a reality show and parlayed it into a few bad relationships, a hair salon, a perfume and a few more appearances on reality tv, culminating in her being exposed as a racist bully, which is ironic considering she's part b black. I don't wish her ill but certainly can't understand this deification that is going on.

I'm glad someone else agrees. I can't understand how Jade got so popular in the first place, considering she was a thick bint who didn't even win her series of Big Brother. I wouldn't even call her a halfwit, she's not that clever. Although I wouldn't wish cancer on anyone, I wish she'd just piss off and stop bleating to the press. I know she's just trying to make more money for her kids, but GO AWAY!

**Rondette** · February 14th, 2009, 03:21 AM

^^^
Agree, but I stll find this a really disturbing story. 'Famous' people don't die of aggressive cancer like this, especially young people like her!! She's only a year younger than me. Her poor kids.

**Sarzy** · February 14th, 2009, 03:50 AM

Originally Posted by buttmunch

I'm just a tad irritated by the tabs gushing all over her like she's some doomed heroine straight out of a Bronte novel when really, all she is is some half wit who got some semblance of notoriety by appearing on a reality show and parlayed it into a few bad relationships, a hair salon, a perfume and a few more appearances on reality tv, culminating in her being exposed as a racist bully, which is ironic considering she's part b black. I don't wish her ill but certainly can't understand this deification that is going on.

Agreed. It's now like everyone has forgotten what a horrible bully she is. Just because she is dying it doesn't mean she now has to be treated as if she is this amazing person. It's sad for her boys though.

**Sassiness** · February 14th, 2009, 04:19 AM

Originally Posted by buttmunch

I'm just a tad irritated by the tabs gushing all over her like she's some doomed heroine straight out of a Bronte novel when really, all she is is some half wit who got some semblance of notoriety by appearing on a reality show and parlayed it into a few bad relationships, a hair salon, a perfume and a few more appearances on reality tv, culminating in her being exposed as a racist bully, which is ironic considering she's part b black. I don't wish her ill but certainly can't understand this deification that is going on.

Ditto.

I mean, I feel sorry for her illness and her sons, who are about to lose their mother far too early but that's it.

**Elisa** · February 14th, 2009, 06:21 AM

Originally Posted by buttmunch

I wonder if everyone will forget her little foray into being a racist bitch from hell...which she of course was very, very sorry about.

I certainly haven't forgotten. I still think she's vile and disgusting - cancer or no cancer. As I said in another thread some time ago about Jade, I can't muster up any sympathy for her, but I do feel for her two sons who will lose their mother.