Adele Roberts has told how the Princess of Wales sent her a message after she had the all clear from cancer - thanking her for sharing her journey. The Radio 1 presenter, 45, who ran the London Marathon for mental health charity Heads Together in 2017 and 2018 first met Kate during an interview about the race. She said Kate and husband William were “amazing” after she was diagnosed with stage 2 bowel cancer in October 2021.
The Royals later reached out again after learning that Adele was in remission, with a heartfelt letter praising her for helping people by opening up. And Adele now says she hopes knowing her story helped Kate in some small way after she was diagnosed with the disease this year and underwent chemotherapy. Adele said: “It’s strange that when I first met William and Catherine, none of us knew what would lay ahead for us.
So I ran the marathon in 2017 and 2018 for their mental health charity, and we didn't know what was in the future. But how strange that we're all connected now in that sense. They were amazing when I first got diagnosed, and when I got declared cancer free, they wrote to me, saying: ‘Thank you for sharing your story, because it’s going to help so many other people and inspire them.
They were just really lovely. “Catherine going through what she has been through just shows they mean what they say because she is sharing her story and she doesn’t need to. And you never know, like, maybe in a way, them maybe being a little bit aware of what I've been through helped Catherine.
I don't know. I hope it did. I really do.
I haven’t been in touch because I know when you go in through it, it's hard and she will be probably have felt overwhelmed with just life - let alone people getting in touch. But it's great to see how she's responded and shared her story.” Adele, who competed on Dancing on Ice last year, told how she is still triggered by other cancer stories, But she believes she has come out of her ordeal stronger but and considers herself a cancer thriver, not survivor.
She went on: “When I was first diagnosed, I thought it was over, I thought I was going to die. And then I had that little bit of hope, that glimmer that I could be helped. I just thought: ‘If you get your life back, Adele, spend your life giving back to those that have helped you, but also always move forward in your life, try and use this second chance at life to really live your life to the full.
’ “And so I had that little goal in my head every single day. And I think I was determined to make it make me more of myself, not less of myself. Because chemotherapy steals so much of who you are.
It changed my face. It took away my fingerprints. It was brutal.
(But) that made me just go: ‘Anything you can control and anything you can hold on to, do it.’ And I actually think, in a weird way, I've come out the other side stronger and better.” Adele Roberts has teamed up with the National Lottery for its 30 th birthday to celebrate 30 game-changing individuals who have had a huge impact on their communities using National Lottery funding.
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